Draper manuscripts: Rudolph-Ney papers, 1816-1890.

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Draper manuscripts: Rudolph-Ney papers, 1816-1890.

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Papers and research materials gathered by Lyman Draper in an attempt to unravel two curious and mystery-filled nineteenth-century rumors involving three historical people: Peter S. Ney, an eccentric schoolteacher active in the Carolinas and Virginia from 1821 to 1846; Michel Ney (1769-1815), a French military leader allegedly executed by a firing squad in December, 1815; and Michael Rudolph, a Maryland officer in the Revolution and later a member of Wayne's army who reportedly disappeared in a shipwreck in the West Indies in 1794. When intoxicated, Peter S. Ney claimed to be the French General Michel Ney and to have escaped his publicized execution and fled to America. The other popular legend is that Michael Rudolph had survived the shipwreck, and assumed a new identity and had achieved a second military career as the famed Marshal Ney of France.

2.0 c.f. (10 volumes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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