A Jersey Hero

The following story is copied word for word from the Ocean County Emblem
– Tom’s River, NJ Jan. 15, 1862

“A Jersey Hero”

Colonel Bayard, who recently, at the head of a reconnoitering party, made a gallant dash into a rebel village, is recovering from the wounds he then received and which were by no means slight. That he possesses the true spirit and endurance of his ancient namesake, the Bayard sans puer, sans reproache, will be gathered from the following: On the morning after the skirmish, Gen. McClellan sent a messenger to ask how he was. His reply was that he was hit on the shoulder, had a bullet in his right thigh, and had his horse shot under him and had been somewhat stunned by the fall, but he was “quite well, I thank you, and able to attend to his duties,” and should report in person at headquarters very shortly.