Monday, July 16, 2012

John M. Brannan has filed a petition . . .

. . . in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, braying for a divorce from his wife Eliza Brannan, on the ground of adultery, committed with Powell T. Wyman.  Mrs. Brannan is the lady who disappeared mysteriously from Staten Island in July, 1858, and the other party implicated is the Colonel whose appointment, by Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, was made the subject of a sharp discussion in the spicy correspondence between the Governor and Gen. Butler, which was laid before the legislature.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4

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