The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-25
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CAPSULE NO. 30.

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THEIR terms of enlistment having expired, the members of the Eighth
! Regiment returned PM in the fall of 81 1t IA a second home
coming from wal for most OF them, as they had been members OF the Did First
Regiment in the nnety-day campaign. They werea accorded a reception upon
their arrival in Newark commensurate with their deeds upon the field of BATTLE
which is merely another way of saying that their reception vas a very warm
and enthusiastic n The Thirteenth Regiment had become involved in the
Western campaign an va to have experience Of the wr o its very end, In
that they were a part of the army whose long trek inspired Marching Through
Georgia" 1t happened that the Thirythird' even though it had been in the
thick of combat from the time it reached the scene of action apparently, "a
to get its hardest knocks toward h end of h war 1t a SO placed in the
Atlanta campaign h nothing could hav happened in The line of battle With
ut it's being involved in it. In a particularly fierce action before
Atlanta fell, Captain H c Bartlett, of Company c, n Lieutenant Joseph L.
Miller, of Company E, were killed. At Dallas a little later, Captain Charles J.
Field, of Company f, was fatally wounded, and later, at pine Knob, Captain
William H. Cochran, his successor wa killed. During this campaign three
Atlanta the rhntythtrd bore TIT brunt of an attack b. Hoods entire army.
The regiment was one of III frtt to inter Atlanta after that city fell When
the marchf from Chattanooga a started there a enrolled in it 500 men
When Atlanta was reached u 100 members of the regiment we're left
Attention la beenc called beforet o the manner in which a lew figures set
in opposition may tell a wonderful story of herdsn and suffering. But it is
doubtful if figures weree ever given the opportunity to recte a more striking
tale of endurance which vas almost superhuman n courage which knew no
weakening hn vas afforded by the Thirty third New Jersey Volunteers in
this campaign. One who had witnessed the 4sunaings of the members Of this
regiment OF the long march, punctuated with skrmtshes and battles declared
the "a in I'll of its our years of misery m hardship furnished not IN
other sue example of distress, manfuny endured. The Thirty third also par
tcipated in the "march to he sea" so hat two of Newarks regiments made q
par of sberman's army. History tells that me of hi officers IF h Thirty
bird vas he first mar to enter Savannah whent the og march vas ovr It
would have been strange, indeed, if a member of n other regiment hat been
accorded that honor in tha TIN Thfrtythrd had apparently been in from all
The way
Lee surrendered to Grant April g. 1866 The Thrty-third reached Washing
ton in time to participate in the great military review which marked he close
of the Val In the three years its members had served their country Is n
listed soldiers they had covered over twenty-five hundred miles And by far h
larger percentage of these same weary, bloody miles werec covered on foot It
was not untlA August 2, 1861 that the members of the Thhty-t third were mus
awaited heir arrival here to ask thu survivors of III eleven hundred men who
marched % wr three years before low friends an relatives had died. During
the wr Newark, with a population OF $4,000, had contributed 10000 fighting men
children in the population OF very town must show how freely the city had
given of its mel. 1t had ben given reasont to feelin intensely proud of every
me of Its citizens who wen to the front
That rejoicing over the end Of. the war tempered of course by the grf If
individuals, vas turned to general mourning when President Lincoln was ked
in Forfs Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, April a. 1885,, i've days after Lees
surrender The entire city went into mourning and elaborate services here
marked the funeral of he first of he martyred Presidents