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...Childress stated that this General made it quite clear that Marshal Ney was actually executed under his own orders and in his presence. Also he stated that he would like to read more on the subject in future issues of TIME...
...your July 20 issue you had an article regarding the exhumation of the body of Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer...
...stated in your article that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney...
...inconceivable to my mind that anyone who wishes to believe the truth will not believe the statements of such people as the above mentioned minister and doctor. Peter Stuart Ney was a school teacher at Mocksville, N. C. and boarded at the same house with my mother's father, who was also a school teacher in the same neighborhood. ... I have copies of Peter Stuart Ney's own handwriting, and we have coming to us from Paris copies of Marshal Ney's handwriting, which we plan to have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several...