The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-22
Revolutionary Battle Re-
fought Yesterday At the
dwelling Of the Monu-
ment y :
THREE GOVERNORS PRESENT
SHIPS FROM THE NORTH ALLAN
TIC SQUADRON SALUTE THE
TRooPs--ADDREss BY COVER
NOR STOKES

OlQ red baHk DaIlleuelu, near sueI6, } 9SS
terday, an imposing shaft, erected to the
memory of Colonel Christopher Greene
and his fellow American patriots from
New Jersey, Rhode Island and Pennsyl-
vania, who defeated the Hessians in
1777, was unveiled by Miss Virginia An
drews, Of this place. in the presence of
three Governors, State guardsmen,
Grand Army members, marines from the
League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
patriotic societies, German singing So
cieties and big throng of other specta-
tors.
The Governors present were Edward
Casper Stokes, of New Jersey; George
H. Utter, of Rhode Island, and Samuel
W. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania.
These Chief Executives and their fol-
lowing were taken from Philadelphia in
the morning on a special boat from
South street to Gloucester, and were
driven to Woodbury. and accompanied the
parade to the battlefield.
Governor Utter's party included the
wife and son and two great-great-g grand
children of Colone. Greene. who COM
manded the Rhode Island regiment at
the Revolutionary battle thus conl-
memorated. They are Miss Mary A.
Greene and Edward Aborn Greene, both
of Providence The others of Governor
Utter's party, most of which were the
members of his staff, are Lieutenant
Governor Frederick H. jackson, Mrs.
Jackson, Adjutant- General Frederick M.
Sackett. Secretary of State Charles P.
Bennett, Archer w. Dennis, Speaker of
the House of Representatives; Mrs. BEN
nett, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard w. Jennings,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Stiffness, Colonel
Everett e. Whipple, Mrs. Whippls. Colo
mel Harold A. Peckham, Mrs. Psckham,
Colonel z. W. Bliss, Mrs. Bliss, Colonel
Thomas Allen, Mrs. Allen, General
George H. Kenyon, General H. s. Tan
ner. Colonel John H. Wetherell. General
w. H. Walker, Major Charles w. Alb
bott. Jr., Colonel A. S. Cook, Colonel ].
Henry Manning. Colonel George H
Webb, Colonel Webster knight. Colonel
A. S. Warfeld, Colonel L. S. H:ll.
The parade from here to the Red
Bank battlefield was in the following for
nation
Chief marshal. Brigadier- General
Quincy O'Malley Gilmore; aide to mar
shal, Lewis Starr; Clayton Concert
Band; Marine Field Music; detachment
of League Island marines; Rear-Admiral
J. E. Craig and staff Governor George
FL. Utter, staff and official party, OF
Rhode Island; First City Troop, Caval-
~, Philadelphia; Governor Pennypacke1
and staff, Of Pennsylvania; jennings
Third Regiment Band; Second Troop
Cavalry, Of New Jersey; Governor
Stokes, staff and official party, of New
Jersey; Third Regiment of New Jersey
in command of Colonel John A. Mathers
Jr.; Battery Field Artillery, Third Regi-
ment; Naval Battalion of the West
band; German Singing Society Grand
Army posts and other organizations.
Hatch Post Of Camden, with 100 men
met the procession at the Boulevard al
National Park. and escorted the line
guests to the hotel.
The march was along the route taken
by the routed Hessians nearly 129 years
ago. At North Woodbury. the marchers
passed along Hessian avenue 70 the
monument on Red Clay Bluff, near the
old Whitehall mansion in which house
the soldiers on both sides who fell in the
TIT battle were cared for by Dame
Whitall. Oversthe mansion this morning
Miss Matilda F. Whitall of Woodbury.,
az -ect descendant of Dame Whitan,
raised a flag given by the American Me-
chanies to the Gloucester County Histori-
cal Society.
Upon the arrival Of the troops on the
battlefield a salute was fred from the
United States gunboat Dixie and other
vessels of the North Atlantic Squadron
that took part in the celebration.
In the sham battle that was a feature
of the day, sixty-ive rounds of ammuni-
rion minute were fired by the gunboa'
Dixie. There were 400 troops stationed
in the trenches that have existed fol
over century. This was the number ir