Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered, and for most of the New Jersey troops there was a brief period of elation, as they realized that the long war was about to end. But the reality was there was still a Confederate Army under Joseph Johnston fighting in North Carolina, and President Jefferson Davis had escaped from Richmond.
While most Jersey regiments waited to see if they would be sent south to the Carolinas, the 9th New Jersey Volunteers were already there, and for them the war continued as…
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