Editing Duncan Campbell (died 1758)

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'''Duncan Campbell''' was a [[Scotland|Scots]] nobleman who died on 18 July 1758 as a result of wounds received in an [[Battle of Carillon|unsuccessful frontal attack]] against French forces at Fort Carillon (renamed [[Fort Ticonderoga]] when the British took the fort a year later).  The legend associated with Campbell is that a number of years prior—while still living in Scotland—Campbell gave shelter to a stranger who turned out to have killed Duncan's cousin.  Faced with the conflict between betraying a guest or taking vengeance for the death of his cousin, Campbell compromised by allowing the killer to hide out in a cave.  The ghost of Campbell's cousin is claimed to have appeared to Campbell in a dream and promised to meet him again at ''Ticonderoga'', a place that Duncan surely had never heard of previously. This story was published in the poem "Ticonderoga a Legend of the West Highlands" by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] in ''Scribner's Magazine'' December 1887.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2008/01/the-pipers-refr.html |date=January 30, 2008 |title=The Piper's Refrain: "Farewell, Inverawe" |work=Walking the Berkshires |first=Tim |last=Abbott}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smokedsalmon.co.uk/publish.asp?what=info_ghost&page=1 |work=Inverawe Ghost Stories |title=The Ghost of Ticonderoga |publisher=Inverawe Smokehouse}}</ref>
 
Campbell's [[42nd Regiment of Foot]] Highlanders took many casualties in the ill-fated attack on Fort Carillon.  Legend has it that the battle was replicated in the clouds over [[Inveraray Castle]] in Scotland on the afternoon of the attack.  The story of the ghostly prediction and the apparition in the clouds over Inverawe has been repeated a number of times in magazines, song, and used several times in television scripts.
His remains are interred at the Union Cemetery in Fort Edward, NY alongside [[Jane McCrea]] and her cousin Sara McNeil.

==Songs==
Inspired by the history and legend, [[Rich Nardin]] wrote (circa 1980) the song "Piper's Refrain", about the end of Campbell's story.  The song was first released on Nardin's 1983 album, and has been recorded by multiple artists since.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mudcat.org/detail.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2387939 |title=Correction: The Piper's Refrain |first=Rich |last=Nardin |date=13 July 2008 |publisher=Mudcat Café}}</ref>  The song is in the folk tradition and may be thought by some to be a traditional ballad when sung by others.  The story further inspired [[Margaret MacArthur]] to write "The Legend of Duncan Campbell" as an accompanying song which explores the beginning of the tale in Scotland.
* {{cite web |url=http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4696 |title=Piper's Refrain (Duncan Campbell)}} (1983) by [[Rich Nardin]] at [[Mudcat Café]]
* {{cite web |url=http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9527 |title=The Legend of Duncan Campbell}} (1989) by [[Margaret MacArthur]] at [[Mudcat Café]]

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