An Enemy Retreat & a Veteran Party in NJ

Today in New Jersey history:

June 7, 1780: American resistance from Militia and Continentals stiffened as General Knyphausen moved beyond Connecticut Farms and the attack ground to a halt when General “Scotch Willie” Maxwell arrived with reinforcements and took command on the scene with more militiamen and the remainder of his New Jersey Brigade. Maxwell conducted a fighting withdrawal beyond Connecticut Farms and across the Rahway River towards Springfield. By nightfall on June 7, Knyphausen gave up and withdrew.

June 7, 1879: Over 5,000 Union Civil War veterans left New York and Brooklyn in a caravan of fifteen excursion barges that sailed up the Hudson River. They landed at Alpine, New Jersey, opposite Yonkers, for a grand picnic.