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The Human Liberty Bell at Camp Dix, including 25,000 people in 1918. Fort Dix was established on 16 July 1917, as Camp Dix, named in honor of Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, and a former U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Governor of New York. [13]
Jenkins Hall, which houses the Military Sciences and Commandant's Office is named in his honor; MajGen Evander M. Law (1856) fought in 13 major engagements during the Civil War, wounded four times and youngest general in Army of Northern Virginia. Founded South Florida Military College, Law Barracks is named in his honor
History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army 1775-1945 (US Army, 1955) online; not copyright because it is a government publication. Laurie, Clayton D. The role of federal military forces in domestic disorders, 1877-1945 (Government Printing Office, 1997). Linn, Brian McAllister. The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (UP of Kansas, 2000 ...
The Shady Rest Country Club, established in 1921, was the first Black-owned and operated country club in the United States. ... is to make Scotch Plains and other New Jersey residents aware of the ...
First militia muster in what is now Continental United States, 16 September 1565, St. Augustine, Florida. A militia was mustered in Spanish Florida in the 1500s, [1] while on 13 December 1636 the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court passed an act calling for the creation of three militia regiments from the existing separate militia companies in towns around Boston. [2]
The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. The John L. Murphy Publishing Company, Printers for the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, 1898. Callahan, North (1958). Henry Knox: General Washington's General. Rinehart. Chernow, Ron (2010). Washington: A Life. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-266-7. Davis, Curtis Carroll.
Established in response to a demand for more units from Union Army commanders, USCT regiments, which numbered 175 in total by the end of the war in 1865, constituted about one-tenth of the manpower of the army, according to historian Kelly Mezurek, author of For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops (The Kent State University ...
The state of New Jersey in the United States provided a source of troops, equipment and leaders for the Union during the American Civil War.Though no major battles were fought in New Jersey, soldiers and volunteers from New Jersey played an important part in the war, including Philip Kearny and George B. McClellan, who led the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War and unsuccessfully ran ...