. Essex county, , illustrated . brigade of New Jersey soldiers belongs order to place shotted guns on the chain bridge and turn off thedraw of the Long Bridge across the Potomac, and thus pre-vented our own soldiers, wild with excitement over the defeat,and while chasing the phantom of senseless stampede, fromreaching the capital, where looters would follow ([uick in thefootsteps of the flying. It is reported of the Hon. Benjamin Wade, commonly called Old Ben Wade, an erratic son of Ohio, who, not unlike manyother civilians and non-combatants, went out from Washingtonto see the first great
. Essex county, , illustrated . brigade of New Jersey soldiers belongs order to place shotted guns on the chain bridge and turn off thedraw of the Long Bridge across the Potomac, and thus pre-vented our own soldiers, wild with excitement over the defeat,and while chasing the phantom of senseless stampede, fromreaching the capital, where looters would follow ([uick in thefootsteps of the flying. It is reported of the Hon. Benjamin Wade, commonly called Old Ben Wade, an erratic son of Ohio, who, not unlike manyother civilians and non-combatants, went out from Washingtonto see the first great battle of the war, tliat when on the retreathe jumped out of his carriage on arriving at the point where thetroops of the New JeVsey Brigade were stretched across theroad checking the wild stamjiede of the northern army afterthe disastrous route at Bull Run and checking the pin-suit ofthe victorious southerners, and exclaimed: Would to Godwe had more such men as these Jerseymen in the arm)-, wewould not have suffered this VIEW OF NEWARK. N. J., IN 1892, SOUTH-WEST FROM CL.\RKS LHl .\1N K\. the honor of completing the first regular work of llie warover which old glory flew. The most important place in astrategic point of view was that held by the New Jersey troops,with our own Essex County First Regiment to the fore front. Wf now approach the first great battle of the war, known asIkiU Run. the name taken fron-i a little stream running throughthe now famous ground. A writer, in speaking of the battle, writes : When the battlewas fought and lost to the nations troops, yet it was no fault ofthe first New Jersey brigade or of General Theodore all was disorder and dismay-when many others had lefttheir posts of duty and skulked away under cover of the nightthat followed the battle, the Jersey brigade was found standingas a wall between the enemy and the capital. Amid the tur-moil of defeat to our army, twas General Runyon who gave the The venerable Mons
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