. Essex county, , illustrated . hey had to undergo intheir approaches to the expected denouement of the bloody bat-tle-field. But they were Jerseymen. and it was theirs to keepunsullied the reputation won by the famous Jersey Blues on May. he was directed to embark his troops as .soon as possi-ble, on the propellers of the Delaware and Raritan canal, andon the same day the General commanding received his finalorders to reach Washington by the way of Armapolis, the rail-road route through Baltimore having been cut off by the burn-ing of bridges and the tearing up of tracks by the southerner
. Essex county, , illustrated . hey had to undergo intheir approaches to the expected denouement of the bloody bat-tle-field. But they were Jerseymen. and it was theirs to keepunsullied the reputation won by the famous Jersey Blues on May. he was directed to embark his troops as .soon as possi-ble, on the propellers of the Delaware and Raritan canal, andon the same day the General commanding received his finalorders to reach Washington by the way of Armapolis, the rail-road route through Baltimore having been cut off by the burn-ing of bridges and the tearing up of tracks by the southernersalready in the field. To the Hon. John G. Stevens, a director ofthe Delaware & Raritan Canal Company at the time, belongsthe honor of the first suggestion as to the feasibility of thisroute. In his orders. General Runyon was directed to report tothe commandant at Annapolis on his arrival. Space not permit-ting a full record of the Generals orders, it must suffice for usto say on this page of ESSE.\ CoLNTV, New Jersey, VIEW OF M.\RKET .STREET .^ 1 L.\ .\: V RAILROAD. the bloody fields of the revolution and under the eye of theimmortal Washington. The\ were inexperienced, but yetpossessed the s])irit of war-worn veterans. It didnt take themlong to get at an understanding of the necessity of subordina-tion, and when the order came to break camp and move, thestate had abundant reason to look upon their citizen soldiers, incompany, regiment and full brigade, with pride and in earnest had begun, and that too in earnest before theflowers of May had begun their blooming, and our EssexCounty boys were not far from the terrible experiences which war in earnest ever brings The easy route by rail to Wash-ington had ah-eady been cut in twain at Baltimore, and whenGeneral Runvon received his final orders on the 19th day of TRATED, that these orders to Essex Countys brilliant lawyer,soldier, statesman, and now- the nations ambassador to the Ger-man
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