Today in New Jersey history:
April 2, 1865: New Jersey soldiers of the First and Second New Jersey Brigades took part in the Army of the Potomac’s breakthrough of the Confederate Lines at Petersburg, causing the fall of Richmond and forcin...g General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to retreat west to Appomattox, where Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, effectively ending the Civil War.
