Patriotic poems of New Jersey

26 December 1776

Battle of Trenton

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ballad of Sweet P Virginia Woodward Cloud 18 W*

The Battle of Trenton Anonymous 20

Washington at Trenton Sara Wiley Drummond 22 w^

DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The original, which is now in the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts was painted by Thomas Sully. The etching was by
W. Humphrey and the engraving by C. G. Lang. Another
picture entirely different But bearing the same name, and
which is now in the Kunsthalle, Bremen, was painted in
1850 by Emanuel Leutze.

Washington at the Second Battle of Trenton S*g^ V V

The original which is now in the gallery at Yale University
was painted in 1792 by Col. John Trumbull at the request
of the city of Charlestown, S. C. It represents Washington
at sunset on January 2, 1777, looking across Assunpink
creek and inspecting the camp of Cornwallis. Every part
of Washington's dress and even the trappings of his horse
are accurate in every detail, having been drawn by the
artist from the original objects.

THE BATTLE OF TRENTON.

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PATRIOTIC POEMS
THE BATTLE OF TRENTON.

THB TIMBS THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS-

OF NEW JERSEY

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Howe's disordered line In sorrow and dismay. — A fine touch, the
line of British cantonments stretched along the Delaware from Maiden-
head (now Lawrenceville), to Mount Holly and Black Horse; but after
the affair at Trenton all these posts were precipitately abandoned, and
Howe postponed his triumphal visit to London.

"Hal" cries the fair, "fray, who is heV % — They begrudged Washing-
ton the title of General; and it was always a mystery to them how farmers
shoemakers, blacksmiths and tanners could be such able military men.

3 January 1777

Battle of Princeton

GREAT HEWS FROM THE JERSEYS.

How England Received the News from Trenton and Princeton.

This ballad, under the guise of classical mythology, tells how the
news of Washington's masterly campaign in the Jerseys was received in
monarchial England. The song takes its title from our State because it
was here that Washington won the marvelous victories of Trenton and
Princeton. It expresses the unbounded joy and exultation of the Ameri-
cans at the recovery of the Jerseys in January, 1777. Written immediate-
ly after the battle of Princeton, this song at once became a favorite both
among the soldiers and among the people; and no wonder, for it is a re-
markably strong assertion that the new-born Republic was a world-
power.

Mars and Bellona as king and queen represent Monarchy, and th
attendant gods are the aristocrats surrounding their throne.

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William Livingston in the year 1747 at the age of twenty-four
had written and published a poem of about seven hundred lines entitled
Philosophic Solitude, or The Choice of a Rural Life. In taking up the
poet's pen again in 1778 after an interval of thirty-one years, he alludes
m the opening paragraph of To His Excellency General Washington to
the poetry written by him in his earler days.

Moore. — Captain James Moore of Princeton was a tanner and
currier by trade and lived on the street which still bears his name. He
was a Ruling Elder in the church from 1807 until his death on November
29, 1832, at the age of eighty years. He was an active patriot during the
Revolution. At the battle of Princeton, when the British grenadiers
sought refuge in the college building, Captain Moore, aided by a few of
his men, burst open the door and called on them to surrender, which they
instantly did. His grave in the Princeton cemetery is marked by a
monument.

The original manuscript of The Jersey man's Resolve, in Captain
Moore's handwriting, is still extant. .

28 June 1778

Battle of Monmouth

DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth *£ £ J

This is from the picture by D. M. Carter, engraved by John
Rogers. The original is in St. Louis, Mo.

RETREAT OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

RETREAT OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

The Retreat of the British Army from Philadelphia to Sandy Hook.
The news of the French alliance reached Washington at Valley
Forge the first week in May, 1778. The expected arrival in Dela-
ware bay of the French fleet compelled the British army under General
Clinton to evacuate Philadelphia; Clinton withdrew by way of Haddon-
field, Mount Holly and Freehold, and reached Sandy Hook on June 30th,
where he embarked his army for New York city. It was during this march
that the battle of Monmouth was fought on Sunday, June 28. 1778.

The joyful news sqpn spread throughout the host

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Moll Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth

MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH.

MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH.

On the bloody field of Monmouth,

Plashed the guns of Greene and Wayne,
Fiercely roared the tide of battle,

21 April 1836

Battle of San Jacinto

OF NEW JERSEY

OF NEW JERSEY

Dictionary and also of the Standard Dictionary. He was the author of
Old and New, Up and Down the Irrawaddi, and After His Kind. Among
his ballads, which are few in number, but high in merit, are For Charlie's
Sake, The Maryland Battalion, Stonewall Jackson's Way, The Fight at
San Jacinto, and Theodosia Burr\ these have been gathered into a volume
published by the Funk and Wagnalls Company.

The Maryland Battalion was read at the unveiling of the monu-
ment to Maryland's Four Hundred in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on
August 27, 1895, but it was not written for that occasion.