The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-23
CAPSULE NO. 81.

- CAPSULE &c. 81.
T7HAT critical year of 49, which saw he activities of the war excited 10
heir highest ptcr,a afforded opportunities Vulnerable for furtherg gal.
liant exploits on the parto Newark regiments BY the beginning of this y~r
all of the soldiers mustered in rom NewWs we're veterans who had won the
praise of commanding officers on the field ana who could be absolutely depended
upon in action. Colonel johnson, OF te Eighth, who had returned to his con-
nan before a dangerous wound in his side had healed, was forced to resign
because OF it, and the regiment a little Iaterlo lost the services of the gallant
Chaplain chambe, because of 1ong-continued illness Beams Battery. which
was attached 70 the Eighth lost its commander Captain John e Beam, at Nal.
vemH Hill. The battery had been extremely fortunate since, although it had been
o. ncaimable value to every brigade to which it had been attached, merely
handful of men had been KILLED. It's record for he entire time of its servis
was but fifteen killed of the sventy-hve who marched away with the guns.
Members of a battery which is pat of an active and aggressive army, eminent-
y able to take care OF itself have the advantage of being able to fight al long
range. True. it is the wen-known habit of desperatec charges to direct Them
selves at batteries, but there is n o record Of any desperate charge getting By
the Eighth Regiment, to which this battery wa attached. Many a ne started
Beams BaHery-ward, but something always happened to it long before It
reached the guns. Even had other obstacles been overcome, it is likely the
battery itself would have been able to take care of said desperate charges In
that it was ar exceptionally active nj hard working battery AM had a very
fatal way with it.
1t was a Salem Church. May 3 1868, that the Second Regiment vas engaged
for the first time that year. The regiment receivedt III whole fire of the enemy
while the arm behind it vas reforming and drew down upon Itself again thu
praise of the commanding, general Historians mention Private Richard M.
Blake. of h Second, an account of whose gallant and noble conduct" during
the battle "a made a part OF the reports. The Second mex at Gettysburg,
but "a not stationed in any hotly-conteaed part of the hed. It's copmander,
Lieutenant-Colonel wiebecke, wa in charge of the picket line, and W as con
mended for his GOODNESS m bravery but the men of the regiment had very
little to dc in the decisive struggle of the var 1t vas just a well, as they had
already wn enough laures to last them or all time, and victory was scheduled
70 rest with tn army of which they were a part without their active par
.ucipation.
n the summer of SO another regiment, theT hitythird, was mustered In
here. It as known as a veteran volunteer regiment as almost every man
enHsting had already served his country at the front Newark furnished the
bulk of the regiment. but Norris Passaic and Hudson counties contributed of
their heroes whose terms of enlistment had exphed n who wished to 20 back
to the var The Thirtythhd was regarded from he first a a crack regi-
mnt in hat it IA seasoned n sure of itself, and preparations for it's de-
|parture were made in accordance with that idea. It's member were accoutred
in bright zO"ave uniforms and equipped with Springfield rifles Of the very latest
pattern a that time. Officers of the regiment were: Colonel, George ". Mndn,
a youth 20 years. of age who had already, despite hist ender years, commands
the Twentysevnth New Jersey with thu greatest distinction; neuenant-cdoneL
Enos Fouratt; major, David J. Peoubet, am adjutant, William A Lambert.
1t "a not until late in September that he Thtty-thhd was started for the
front. From Washington it vas sent into Tennessee. In a first engagement,
near Chattanooga, November 49, Captain William G. Boggs o. Company A. and
Captain Samuel F Waldron, of Company l. were killed. Afterth the battle en-
Ieal Howard compimenhd the regiment upo it's splendid behavior. Things
had reached a stage where, when a Newark regiment vas spoken Of gallant
Mas understood.