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to his wounded captor. On taking the sword (as tradition liands down the story), Major Brown- field turned its point on the breast of his un- armed captive and plunged it through his body. His waistcoat pierced by the sword is preserved by the Connecticut Historical society. Not con. tent with a single victim, the British soldiers turned upon their unarmed captives and killed eighty-five and wounded sixty. Many of the wounded, who were cared for b}' the women of Groton, including Fanny, niece of Colonel Led- 3'ard,died from their wounds. His nephew, John Ledyard (1750-1789) was a navigator, explorer, witness of the death of Captain Cook and author of Xarrative of the Third and Last Expedition of Capt. James Cook (lldS). Col. William Led- yard died in Fort Griswold, Coim., Sept. 7, 1781.

LEE, Albert, editor and author, was born in New Orleans, La., May 11, 1868; son of Gen. Albert Lindley Lee, grandson of Moses Lindley Lee, and a descendant of William Lee, who set- tled on Long Island in 1681. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter academy, was gradu- ated from Yale, A. B., 1891; was connected with the editorial staff of the New York Stin. 1891-9-1; editor of Harper's Round Table, 1894-99, and in the latter year became managing editor of Har- per's Weekly. He was married. May 22, 1895, to Blanche, daughter of Augustus B. Coit of New York. His published works include: Tommy Toddles (1895); Track Athletics in Detail (1896); The Knave of Hearts (1897); Four for a Fortune (1898); He. She and They (1899).

LEE, Albert Lindley, soldier, was born in Fulton, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1834; son of Moses Lindley and Ann (Case) Lee and a descendant of William Lee, who settled on Long Island in 1681. He was graduated at Union college in 1853; studied law. and removed to Kansas, where he was elected a justice of the supreme court of the state in 1861. He resigned his seat on the bench the same j'ear to serve as major of the 7th Kansas cavalry, and became its colonel in the following year. In May, 181)2, he was ordered with his regiment to Mississippi and commanded tiie 2d cavahy Inigade at the battle of Corinth. Oct. 3. and afterward in Grant's central Mississippi campaign. He was appointed brigadier-general in January, 1868, his commission dating from Nov. 29, 1862; was assigned to the 13th army corps, Gen. John A. McClernand commanding, and acted as his chief of staff in the operations about Vicksburg,and at the battles of Champion Hill and Big Black River. May 16 and 17, 1863. On May 19 he com- manded the 1st brigade, 9th division, 13th army corps, in tl\e assault on Vicksburg, and was se- verely wounded by a gunshot through face and head. He rejoined his brigade for duty July 26, 1863, and was assigned to the command of the

12th division, 13tli army corps, which was ordered to New Orleans. He was appointed chief of cavalr\-, department of the Gulf, on the staff of Gen. N. P. Banks, and saw service in western Louisiana. In the Red River expedition of 1864, he commanded the cavalry division. In July, 1864, he commanded an infantry brigade in the expedition up the White river, Arkansas: iu August, he was assigned to the command of the cavalry division, headquarters at Baton Rouge, La., and in January, 1865, he was ordered to New Orleans, and was on duty there till May, 1865, when he resigned his commission and was mus- tered out of service. General Lee subsequently engaged in business in New York city where he was still residing in 1901.

LEE, Alfred, first bishop of Delaware and .38th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 1807; son of Capt. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Leighton) Lee; and grandson of Thomas and Mary (Pitt) Lee and of John and Eliza- beth (Gorham) Leigh- ton. He was gradu- ated with honors from Harvard in 1827, and was admit- ted to the bar in New London, Conn., in 18- 30, where he practis- ed for two years. He was married, April 23, 1832, to Julia, daugh- ter of Eliliu and Sarah (Trumbull) White of Hartford, Conn., and a descendant of John White, Boston, 1632.

He abandoned law in 1833, and was graduated from the General Theological seminary in 1837. He was ordered deacon in Christ (now Trinity) church, Norwich, Conn., May 21, 1837, and ordain- ed priest in Christ church, Hartford, Conn., June 12, 1838, by Bishop Brownell. He oflSciated at St. James's church, Poquetanuck, Conn., 1838; was rector of Calvary church, Rockdale, Pa., 1838-41, and was consecrated the first bishop of Delaware in St. Paul's chapel. New York city, Oct. 12, 1841, by Bishops Griswold, Moore, Chase, Brownell, H. U. Onderdonk, Meade and Mcllvaine. He also assumed the rectorship of St. Andrew's church, Wilmington, Del., in 1843. On the death of Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith of Kentucky. May 31, 1884, he became the eighth presiding bishop of the American episcopate. In January, 1805, Bishop Lee was one of a delegation from the Christian commission to visit Federal pri- soners in the South. In October, 1863, he was assigned to exercise episcopal duties over a