. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . bel General Pemberton hadsurrendered the fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Gen-eral Grant, with 3-,000 prisoners and 200 cannon, and thaiGeneral Robert E. Lee, with the Confederate Army ofNorthern Virginia, had been disastrously defeated in a threedays fight at Gettysburg, Pa., and was on the retreat,General George G. Meade, witli the Army of the Potomac,having killed, wounded and taken ]jrisoners 35,000 of theConfederates. The first telegram read as follows: W.\R Dep.\, J
. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . bel General Pemberton hadsurrendered the fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Gen-eral Grant, with 3-,000 prisoners and 200 cannon, and thaiGeneral Robert E. Lee, with the Confederate Army ofNorthern Virginia, had been disastrously defeated in a threedays fight at Gettysburg, Pa., and was on the retreat,General George G. Meade, witli the Army of the Potomac,having killed, wounded and taken ]jrisoners 35,000 of theConfederates. The first telegram read as follows: W.\R Dep.\, July 4, 1863, 10 A. President announces to the country that news fromthe Army of the Potomac, up to 10 oclock P. M. of the 3d,is such as to cover th;it army with the highest honor, topromise a great success in the cause of the Lhiion. and toclaim the condolence of all for the many gallant fallen; andthat for this he specially desires that on this day He whosewill, not ours, should e\er be done, be everywhere remem-bered and e\er re\erenced w ith profoundest gratitude. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (lOH). WAR TIME PICTURES—ISlH-lIfiGroup Company K. Twelfth Reg. N. J. Inf. S. Green Serg. Charles S. PadgettGeorge Laws George McHenry Samuel H, Tomlinson Thomas H. Conover (109) no HISTORIC DAYS No sooner liad the news arrived than the bell on Gross-cups Hall began to ring vigorously. The melodious bellson the First Presbyterian Church Session House, the SecondPresbyterian Church, the West Jersey Academy, joined inthe tumult, and far and near rang out peals of victory. Hieold six-pounder, which had done good service in celebra-tions of by-gone years, was brought out and fired a saluteon the banks of the Cohansey. The fire engines ]\Iinervaand Bridgeton. old-time hand vehicles, appeared from thehose house on the Cumberland Xail and Iron Works-grounds, near Lotts Mill, and, with a long line of men andboys attached to the ropes, ran through Commerce Streetwith a clatter of fire be
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