Page:Statement of the attempted rescue of General Lafayette from Olmutz.djvu/4

 The friends and family of the late, of South Carolina, have often been requested to furnish particulars of the attempt to rescue General Lafayette from imprisonment in Austria. Many notices and letters have been at various times published in magazines and newspapers, showing the public interest in the event, and in the young American who risked his life in an effort to serve the friend of his country.

The following account is prepared from the personal narrative and conversations of, by one of his family.