New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-01
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY,
s.-.l- = - -. srs.s IIss 49, :
Prince Felix Salnn.3alnn.

We reproduce from the New York World
this extended obituary notice of the late
Prince Salm-Salm, whose death we have
previously mentioned;
A certain interest will be excited in the
United States by the news that at the battle
OF GravelOtte, on the eighteenth, Prince
Felix Salm-Salm, major in tho Fourth Regl-
ment OF Dragons of the Royal Prusslan
Guard, was killed while charging at the
head Of his cavalry.
Felix Constantine NepOmuc Salm-Saim,
born in 1928, was the second son OF Prince
William, Florentin Salm-Salm, and the
brother of Prince Alfred, the actual head of
the once sovereign family of that name.
He early entered the Prussian service,
passed thence into the Austrian, and having
| exhausted the patience, if not the purse, of
I the Prince, his elder brother, who thrice
paid his debts for him at Berlin and Vienna,
he came to America on a sort of desperate
military adventure at the outset OF our
civil war. Here he made himself better
known than esteemed in the too famous
camps of Blenker and about the hotels of
Washington, till, fortunately for himself, he
fell in with, found favor in the sight of. and
married handsome, dashing and spirited
girl of creole origin, Miss LeClerc.
The new princess made up her mind to be
princess indeed. Through her indefatiga-
BILE exertions of all kinds, lnr husband was
made a brigadier in tine United States army.
He served in Alabama aud Georgia with no
particular distinction, but not without
credit. After the war was over, he hest
tated for some time between accepting
position in our regular army and going back
to Europe, and fnnlly decided on trying his
received by Macmillan, then nearing the
close of his hopeless imperial experiment.
But the calamities of 1867 threw him into
close relations with the unfortunate En-
peror, who finally made him his first aide
de-camp. He went with Macmillan to
Queretaro; behaved most faithfully and
gallantly in that dark hour of treachery and
despair; was captured with his master, and
would doubtless have been shot with him
had not his wife displayed, in the service
both OF her luckless husband and of his
more luckless Emperor, fertility of re-
sources, a daring, a perseverance. and
skill worthy of any heroine Of romance.
The Princess finally succeeded in saving
her husbands life. He suffered an i'm
prisonment of nearly year at Vera Cruz,
from which, also, by her influence and
energy he was released in 1868. She then
went with him to Europe. where she fought
and won still more arduous battle for him
by securing not only his re-admission to the
social privileges of his order, but his APP
pointment to the high rank which he held
at the time of his death, in the Prussian
army. His brother was induced by her to
make this possible by paying once more the
Princes debts in Prussia. His debts in
Austria it would have been too much to ex-
pect should be unnecessarily settled; and
Prince Felix took up. on his return, an at
titude toward the House of Hapsburg. which
made such settlement unnecessary bv
making it practically impossible for him to
reside, if he had wished to, in Vienna. He
published last year curious sketch of the
career of Macmillan in Mexico, in two vol
umes, which is full of interesting personal
incident, and may be considered, under
proper reserves" as valuable contribution
to the history of one of the most dramatic |
and least understood episodes in the annals |
of our time. Prince Felix Macmillan. the |
executor of his character and his CORE |
spondence. This claim he pressed. but |
pressed in vain. on the Emperor Francis |
Joseph. who declined to surrender to him |
the letters of his murdered brother The |
Princess survives her husband. and resides |
with the family of his brother at Anhalt. in
the Prvssian States.