On This Day in New Jersey History by Joseph G. Bilby & James M. Madden & Harry Ziegler

Author:Joseph G. Bilby & James M. Madden & Harry Ziegler [Bilby, Joseph G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

July 3

1863 The men of the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment, firing “buck and ball” ammunition (one round ball and three buckshot) in their obsolete smoothbore muskets, helped wreck Pickett’s Charge on Cemetery Ridge. Some of the New Jerseyans took their paper cartridges apart and loaded as many as twenty buckshot pellets in their muskets. As the Rebels closed on the federal line, the Jerseymen rose up from behind the stone wall they were using for cover and delivered a crushing volley into the Twenty-sixth North Carolina, devastating that regiment and capturing its flag, which hung in Trenton until returned to North Carolina in the early twentieth century.

1879 Arthur Harry Moore was born in Jersey City. Better known as A. Harry Moore, he rose in state politics due to his competence, affable nature and alliance with Hudson County political boss and Jersey City mayor Frank Hague. Between 1926 and 1941, Moore served three three-year terms as governor under the constitution of 1844, making him, with nine years in office, the longest-serving governor of the modern era, particularly notable in a period when the governor could not succeed himself in office. In between two of his gubernatorial stints, Moore also served part of a term as a United States senator from New Jersey. He died of a stroke on November 18, 1952, in Branchburg and was buried in New York Bay Cemetery in Jersey City.

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