DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE. 



Mr. George Murray will receive the thanks of students 

 of Canadian history for the interesting note by him, 

 which appeared at p. 161, Vol. I, Canadiana, on the 

 death of General James Wolfe. He therein impartially 

 reviews the conflicting accounts of the mode of his 

 death and furnishes the names of the various persons 

 who helped carry the hero to the rear when wounded. 

 There are for the honor, more than one Richard in the 

 field ; four champions so far. 



Lt. Brown's letter to his father subsequently the 

 Earl of Altamonte, could not be more circumstantial ; 

 " he was the person who carried Wolfe off the field," 

 and the General died in his arms. But " a grenadier 

 of the 28th (Bragg's) and a grenadier of the 58th 

 (Anstruthers'), also lay claim to assisting the dying 

 warrior ; whilst a faithful Highland sergeant, by name 

 James McDougal, like a loyal Scot, is stated to have 

 attended Wolfe dying ". Each of the above may have 

 had a share in the coveted privilege ; let us consult a 

 standard authority on Canadian history on this disputed 

 point. 



Few writers in America or elsewhere, have devoted 

 to the study of our annals a whole life-time ; few have 

 had access to such masses of documents, siege-narra- 

 tives, etc., as Francis Parkman, the conscientious and 

 brilliant historiographer of Montcalm and Wolfe. Not 

 confining himself to books, Mr. Parkman made special 

 visits to Quebec, to study every inch of the battle-field 

 of 1759, and of the sites adjoining. I am in a position 

 to testify to the fact, by personal experience, having 

 among other occasions a recollection of a prolonged and 



