President Lincoln's proclamation of April 15th, 1861, officially announcing the existence of armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and calling for seventy-five thousand men to enforce the laws and protect the property of the United States, was immediately followed by the requisition from the War Department for the quota allotted to New Jersey. The requisition was received in Trenton on April 17th, 1861. On the same day Governor Olden issued his proclamation calling for four regiments of militia. The response to the Governor's call was prompt and in excess of the quota...
...The second proclamation of President Lincoln, calling for five hundred thousand men to serve for three years, or during the war, issued May 3d, 1861 found as ready response as the first...Here were organized the First, Second, and Third Regiments of New Jersey Volunteers..."
---- "History Of Kearny's First New Jersey Brigade", Camille Baquet, The State of New Jersey, 1910.
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