On Feb. 8, 1862, the men of the 9th New Jersey Volunteers, which included most of the enlistees from Ocean County, were bogged down in a swamp on Roanoke Island, N.C., under heavy Confederate fire. They were far from home under the command of Gen. Ambrose Burnside as part of the strategy to blockade Southern ports and force the South to surrender.
Capt. Jonathan Townley Jr. of the 9th wrote, “Few cases of greater individual courage are recorded than that of Corporal Lorence, of Carpenter’s…
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