Mission
The mission of the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey is to preserve and explain the military heritage of New Jersey and enhance public understanding of how armed conflicts and military institutions have shaped our state and national experience. The museum collects, preserves and displays artifacts, documents, and memorabilia that have specific historical significance to the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the Naval Militia of New Jersey.
Staff
CW5 Dominick Cappetti
Director
dominick.j.cappetti.mil@mail.mil
Mr. Joseph Bilby
Historian
Collections Management
Ms. Carol Fowler
Assistant Curator
Veteran Oral Histories
carol.fowler@dmava.nj.gov
SGT Andrew Walker
Command Historian / Curator
andrew.l.walker2.mil@mail.mil
LTC (Ret) William Kale
Assistant Curator, Lawrenceville
COL (Ret) Jon Gribbin
Assistant Curator, Lawrenceville
LTC (Ret) Tom Smith
Assistant Curator, Lawrenceville
Board of Trustees
Committees / Meetings
June 14, 1776
The New Jersey Provincial Congress ordered the arrest of Royal Governor William Franklin, the son of Patriot leader Benjamin Franklin.
May 4, 1862
The Second New Jersey Brigade, composed of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth New Jersey Infantry regiments, fought its first battle, a vicious fight against the rear guard of a retreating Confederate army, in a driving rainstorm at Williamsburg, Virginia, losing 536 men killed, wounded and missing.
April 3, 1865
The Twenty-second United States Colored Infantry, an African-American unit mostly composed of men from New Jersey, was one of the first Union army regiments to enter Richmond, as the Civil War began to draw to a close.
– Abraham Lincoln
