Battle of the Wilderness • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to the 12th New Jersey Infantry Regiment is at the corner of Brock Road and Orange Plank Road. It is Stop Eight of the Auto Tour. The monument was erected in 1942 by the State of New Jersey and was rededicated in 1964. There is also a monument to the 12th New Jersey on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
The 12th New Jersey was commanded at the Battle of the Wilderness by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Davis.
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Attached to the 2nd Corps, 2nd Division, 3rd Brigade | ![]() |
Text from the monument:
12th Regiment
New Jersey
Volunteers
1862 – 1865
“We can not dedicate
we can not consecrate
we can not hallow this ground
the brave men living and dead
who struggled here have
consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or
detract.”
The State of New Jersey
merely marks
the surrounding twenty
acres of ground on which
the 12th New Jersey
Volunteers so gallantly
fought for the preservation
of the Union, May 5 and 6, 1864.
Dedicated May 30, 1942
From the rededication marker next to the monument:
This site rededicated
May 16, 1964
Civil War Centennial Commission
State of New Jersey
Richard J. Hughes
Governor
Location of the monument
The monument is on the south side of the parking area along the south side of Orange Plank Road just before the intersection with Brock Road. (38°18’02.8″N 77°42’34.6″W)