. . . 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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