Draper Manuscripts: Rudolph-Ney Papers
1816-1890
Draper Mss RR
2.0 cubic feet (10 volumes)
Wisconsin Historical Society
(Map)
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.
Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present.
This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.
Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.
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