Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
Author
Patricia Miller
Content
368 + [8 photo] pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Description
Madeline Pollard and William Campbell Preston Breckenridge—a member of Congress and Civil War colonel—began a relationship when she was a teenager and he was married. She sued him for breach of contract when he broke off their engagement and married someone else after his first wife died.
Miller, Patricia. Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed March 24, 2023. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1076.
