Identifier: magazineofamericv4stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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LADY AND MAJOR ACLAND Up to the present time Lady Harriet Aclands life, after iier returnto England, has been little known, and that little incorrectly stated.It has been published as veracious history that shortly after the arrivalof herself and husband in England, the latter became involved in analtercation with a Lieutenant Lloyd, a brother officer, in which hedefended the Americans against aspersions of cowardice; that a duelfollowed which resulted in the death of Major Acland, who fell at thefirst fire; that Lady Harriet thereupon became insane, remained so fortwo years, and finally married Chaplain Brudenel. Wilkinson appearsto have first given currency to this story ; and he has since been followedby Mrs. Ellet, Mr. Lossing, Fonblanque in his Life of Burgoyne, myselfin The Campaign of Burgoyne, and in fact, by all w^ho have written onthis subject. Even Miss Warburton, in a letter to her nephew, the lateSir John Burgoyne (Fonblanque, p. 301), relates substantially the samestory,

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