 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment (also called Jersey Muskrats) was an American Civil War infantry regiment from New Jersey that served from October 1861 through July 1865 in the Union Army.The regiment got its nickname, "Jersey Muskrats", during the Battle of Roanoke Island when they successfully "sloshed through shoe sucking mud into waist-deep water in 'division' formation", giving the regiment a two-company front flanking the enemy.