Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-23
THE LATE GENERAL HENNINGSEN.

In community like our own where there
are many who cherish vivid personal knowl-
edge of the participants in Walkers raid in
Nicaragua; where indeed there are yet liv-
ing not few of those participants themselves,
the following brief memoir of the military
hero of that calamitous piece of hlibustering
will be read with much interest. We quote
from the New York Herald of June Is:
Charles Frederick Henningsen, we'll
known soldier of fortune, died Yesterday in
Washington at the age of 81. His career was
remarkably romantic and adventurous. Gen.
Henningen was born in England, of Swedish
parents, in 1915 His family was connected
with the princely German family of Nlecklen-
berg. In 1884, when only ~ years of age,
he joined the Carlist army Ill Spain, and
served throughout that war for the succession
with distinction. He was aide-de-camp to
Gen. Zumalacararrequi until that great cap
tain was killed, and took command of the
cavalry of Anason at the battle of Vellar de
los Navamoss, defeating the Spanish grena
diers before the walls of Madrid with an If
regular force BY his headlong daring young
Henninasen soon rose to the rank of lleuten-
ant-coonel. When the peace convention was
concluded he returned to England, but when
the war broke out again i'll Spain he returned
to that country, re-entered the revolutionary
army and received commission as colonel
He was taken prisoner by the royalist troops,
and after his release held high command i'll
the Russian army in Circassia. He joined
Kossuth next i'll the Hungarian revolution
When that instruction was ended Colonel
Hennngsen came to the United States, and
afterward Joined the Nicaragua expedition
under General Walker. Henningen held the
rank of Major General commanding, being
the life and soul of the fiibuster expedition.
His successful defense of Granada and the
bloody, decisive victory of Quaresma showed
that he possessed high military ability; in
deed he seems to have furnished the greater
part of the military genius of the entire cam
paigns. General Hennigsen was also the
author of the celebrated ''Twelve Months in
Spain" 1.-The White Slave" Eastern
Europe" "Revelations of Russia, and other
works. At the beginning of the late war he
entered the Confederate army, and is said to
have been the means of extricating General
Lee from the tolls of Rosecrans, i'll the noun
tains of Virginia While with Walker as
flibuster General Hennigsen made many
friends in the South, being possessed OF
winning manner. He was a highly cultured
with talents that would have en-
abled him to make decided success in life
had he not been of so adventurous temper
ment. He was never SO happy as when en-
gagged in some desperate enterprise, and the
more hopeless it appeared the more he liked
it. 1t mattered not whether he was in Spain
n Hungary, in Nicaragua or the United
States, he was always revolutionaire, and
the Wise Legion in Virginia
Turing the early part of the war He had a
olan of operations which was ignored by the
Confederate President, and as Hennigsen
spoke in uncomplmentary terms of Mr.. Davis |
lie was subsequently removed from command. |
When peace was declared General Hennigsen |
abandoned all thoughts of military life. Gen |
,ral Hennigsen married a daughter of the |
etc Senator Berrien, of Georgia. Mrs. Hen
ligsen is an accomplished lady, and is warmly |
esteemed by large circle of friends.