Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 4, April 1847Various
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 4, April 1847
Various
Literature -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals
A romantic interest is thrown around the incidents of this campaign by
the sufferings of several accomplished and excellent ladies, that
followed the fortunes of their husbands, who were officers in the army.
On the 19th of September, they followed the route of the artillery and
baggage, and when the action began, the Baroness Reidesel, Lady Harriet
Ackland, and the wives of Maj. Harnaye, and Lieut. Reynell, of the
sixty-second regiment, had possession of a small hut which the surgeons
soon occupied. Their sensibility was continually affected by the
pitiable sights that were presented as the wounded were brought in,
while their terrified imaginations looked forward to similar calamities
to their husbands. How afflicting were their circumstances when, during
the day, Maj. Harnaye was brought in severely wounded, and intelligence
came that Lieut. Reynell was killed. The Lady Harriet’s husband was
wounded in the action of the 7th of October, and fell into the hands of
the Americans, when, with the greatest heroism, she solicited permission
from Gen. Burgoyne, and went over to the American army, that she might
wait upon her husband. She accompanied Maj. Ackland to Canada in 1776,
and was called to attend on him, while sick in a miserable hut at
Chamblee. In the march upon Ticonderoga she was left behind and enjoined
not to expose herself to the hazards of the expedition, but joined her
husband immediately after his receiving a wound at the battle of
Hubberdton, and would not leave him afterward, but shared his fortunes
and fatigues. The narrative of the Baroness Reidesel, which gives an
account of the expedition, and their own particular sufferings, is as
interesting as a romance.
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