The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-24
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~ EFoRE following the fortunes of tn Newark regiments tic that point
= where they we're mustered out there are son threads of local history
to be picked u p In 1862 there occurred the death of W Newarkers who had
made themselves national figures in a stirring day. William Pennington, whose
friends had insisted he was defeated for reelection to Congress because If
sympathy for the South here just before the war "a Speaker of the House of
CONSERVATIVES in The Thity-ffh Congress No Speaker had ever guided the
deliberations of a great national legislative body he they were frausht with
graver possibilities II a that congress just before the war;
His moderation and fairness won praise rom the representatives of
both hostile sections OF he country. The wa "a but little over
a year old when he died. In this san year Theodore Freinghuysen died. He
had been The Wing ominee for vice-Preident when Henry Clay IA chosen
-, ,oouoro ;, ~ nor+v Tho ticket was defeated by polk and Dallas.
Later in thu year GeneralP Philip Kearny vas killed at the batteo fchantfny. New
ark might not claim this military hero a a native son. but Newark regiments
had fought under hm and his house vas really only a stones throw from TIL
city. This city had followed General Kearnys fortunes with that TINE devoted
interest they would have given them had he beer born here. h city was
shocked by MS death and sincerely mourned tor him. n 1862 Robert L Patter-
son. thu first president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company died.
Life insurance was not a science when tbs Mutual was founded, and Mr. Pat
terson had 10 n much to bring it to that state.
In 1863 William Magee, who enlisted from Newark with thu Thirty-thrd
Regiment as a drummer-boy, capped his remarkable military career with a
behind by the Thirty-Hird when they began. heir marcht owardA uanta, IN =
hospital He was in a garrison in Murfeesboro, which was surrounded by a
detachment of General Hoods army. A Confederate battery perched o a point
of vantage near te city brought nearer with every laundering discharge the
time when it would be necessary to surrender the city. As a lastd desperate
chance Magee led III Eighty first Ohio n a sorte against the battery. The
command al repused with great loss Then Magee led forth the One Hundred
and seventy-fourth Ohio and in ne Of he most onspicuouhy brilliant charges
of the var captured the battery nc saved the garrison. On the medal pre-
sentedt to Magee by Congress as the inscription:
"The Congress- to William Magee, Company {, Thrty-third Regiment, New
Jersey vounteers"
There vas a regiment recruited in Newark late in 80 which must act be
overlooked, wei though it's opportunity to win enough laurel wreaths to go
around was lot great 1t vas the Twenty sixth and the men enlisted nut for
nine months. Newark furnished six companies oft this regiment, n it vas hned
with contributions from Orange, South Orange Bloomfield N 40" ne
officers were: Colonel, Andrew T. Morrison; Northumberland Martindale;
major, William W. Morris and adjutant, John {. White
Under General Grant, who had assumed command Of the Federal forces in
virginia the Second participated in the battles of the Wilderness. 1t will b.
remembered that these Wilderness combats furnished absolute proof of every
thing mean General Sherman aids about "a The Second was fortunate in getting
a chance to engage toward thu EN- OF their period of enHftmentm a campaign
under a commander h had acquired a habit of rompins home a winner. They
had been playing this war game under generals who did not quite measure u
to the standard of heir Southern opponents, untnt they knewf backwards, but
continuous drubbngs were getting monotonous. In a n assault on Gat Jus
during these Engagement Lieutenant Colonel Wiebeckey then commander of the
regiment lwas killed. He had rien from a captaincy to this command n
maryrdom, and was justly acknowledged a here. The term Of enlistment of the
Second expired May 20, 1867 and it a mustered out In three years the reg-
ment had been thinned fom 1000 to 800 men. This fact affords truthful figures
anothers splendid opportunity to become eloquent