Belleville Sons Honor Roll

  A Place of Honor and Remembrance In the Home of the Brave

Belleville, New Jersey

Civil War

1860-1865

These men are known to have died in the Civil War

 

Captain Henry Benson of Belleville died
at Malvern Hill, Va., in 1862.

John J. Rodgers died of his wounds April 8, 1865.

Thomas Stevens was killed June 27, 1862.

Veterans

Daniel Henry Rucker

Major General, US Army
(Arlington National Cemetery)
Born on April 28, 1812 at Belleville, New Jersey.

Rucker

 

Stephen V.C. Van Renssalaer

Civil War Union Army Officer. Commissioned Captain and commander of Company A, 13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry on August 22, 1861, and fought with his unit at the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsvile and Gettysburg.

Death: May. 20, 1885
Buried: Christ Church Cemetery

Van Renssalaer

Sources

Belleville Historical Society, Edward O'Neil

The Belleville Times, Nov. 11, 1996, Richard Dickon, Editor

Civil War Diary of James C. Taylor of Belleville, Company F, 39th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, in the War to Save the Union of the United States of America, 1925.

Diane Price, Belleville Public Library

Michael Perrone

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