. Essex county, , illustrated . VIEWS IN NEWARK IN 1875. ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED. bestowing y])on Essex County iIk- honor of furnisliing the firstIgeneral officer of the state. The task the General had accepted•as no light one, but his experience with the militia hadpeculiarly fitted him for its accomplishment, and with the aid ofthe nuclei! of veteran militiamen, he was not long in bringing order out of chaos, and accomplishing the hard task of dis-ciplining and equipping his brigade of three thousand men,many of whom had never seen a musket, let alone their entiregnorance of mil
. Essex county, , illustrated . VIEWS IN NEWARK IN 1875. ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED. bestowing y])on Essex County iIk- honor of furnisliing the firstIgeneral officer of the state. The task the General had accepted•as no light one, but his experience with the militia hadpeculiarly fitted him for its accomplishment, and with the aid ofthe nuclei! of veteran militiamen, he was not long in bringing order out of chaos, and accomplishing the hard task of dis-ciplining and equipping his brigade of three thousand men,many of whom had never seen a musket, let alone their entiregnorance of military drill, and few indeed but were totallygnorant of the rigors and discomforts they 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 Genera
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