During a short period of time, from the end of April to early June 1813, the state of New Jersey suffered the loss of two of its most famous sons, Zebulon Pike and James Lawrence. The nation’s feelings about the two were summed up in an editorial of the Niles Register on July 10, 1813.
“Hardly had the eye lost its moisture for Pike, ‘the soul of the soldiery,’ killed at the moment of victory, before our griefs were renewed by the capture of the Chesapeake and death of Lawrence; a pride of the…
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