Today to the people of Ocean County, the Outer Banks of North Carolina mean a vacation destination of golf courses and sandy beaches. But 150 years ago, they looked at it as the place where their sons, brothers and husbands were spilling their blood for the defense of the Union.
The 9th New Jersey volunteers, which included most of the sons of Ocean County, were part of the 15,000-man expeditionary force commanded by 37-year-old Gen. Ambrose Burnside from Rhode Island.
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