Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-22
Madison. March Il


ing away peacefully and painlessly
wnlle IN comatose condition He
mad been i'll for nearly a month. his
fatal sickness dating from his visit to
Blanchardville Feb. %, where he went
to attend a camp fire and where he
was lionized almost beyond an ordi-
nary mans endurance. He reviewed
a Grand Army parade there and was
Kept up late at night. When he re-
turned home the next day he COM
planned of chill and was urged to
take proper precautions. Shortly af-
terward he went to bed with the grip
which developed into pneumonia.
Then followed a fight as gallant as
any the old warrior ever waged, in
which he was assisted by all the forces
that loving care and the science of
medicine could muster, but TO no avail.
Yet his marvellous vitality was the
wonder of his physicians. For days
he remained unconscious, still cling
ing to the slender cord of life which
was finally loosed. His family was
about him, his sorrowing wife and his
children, Mrs. w. E. Main and Miss
Flora Harnden of Madison and Mrs.
William Clarke, with her husband, of
Omaha, as well as his grandson, Henry
Harnden Noble of Madison and his
nephew, Edward Harnden OF White
water
While of course the funeral ar
engagements have not yet been entirely
arranged, the obsequies will be under
the auspices of the Grand Amy Ser
vices will be held at 10 a. m. Wednes-
day in the Congregational church, Rev.
E. G. Updike officiating. Captain c.
A. Curtis, assistant adjutant general
of the Wisconsin department, issued
notices to all posts in the state last
night of the death and urging a gen
eral attendance and suitable memorial
action by each post.
A Remarkable Career
Gen. Henry Harnden, rugged, cour-
ageous, supplemented, had a most ro-
manticaily adventurous life. He was
born in Wilmington, Mass, March 4,
1928, of parents descended from the
5 earliest Puritan colonists of that state.
4 He received a common school educa-
ton but found the New England mill
life, to which it was intended to ap-
prentice him, altogether too tame for
one of his vigorous spirit and at the
age of IS he ran away to sea on sail
ing vessel bound for the coast of Africa.
He remained on the ocean wave several
years during which time he doubled
Cape Horn twice and visited the pres
ent site of San Francisco in 1899, near
ly decade before the gold discoveries
that later made that region famous.
By the captain selling the vessel on
which he was employed, he was left
practically stranded ia Peru but final
ly succeeded in shipping home after an
absence of five years. On his return he
found the Mexican war in progress
and promptly started for the front and
was in the transport service for time
helping to bring back the American
wounded from the battle of Palo Alto
but was finally Obliged to return home
on account OF failing health. In 1856
he made an overland trip to California
returning with many stirring adven-
lures, and engaged in gold mining un-
til 1852, when he returned to Massa-
chusetts. He had been married to Mary
A. Lightner of his native town previous
to his California journey and in 1852
they came to Wisconsin settling on a
farm in the town of Sullivan, Jefferson
county. He next moved to Ripon, Wis.
where he was operating a sawmill
when the civil war broke out.
At Lincoln's call for troops Harnden
promptly summoned his hands togeth-
er and told them the mill must stop,
that he intended to enlist and advised
them to do so, and they did to man.
He enlisted as a private in the LIST Wis
consin cavalry July Is, 1861, was pro-
NOTED to sergeant in January, 1862,
then to captain, which rank he held
when the regiment went to Benton bar
racks. Mo. where it was first sent He
was in the campaigns in Missouri
Arkansas. Tennessee and Georgia and
participated in many battles and
skirmishes. In Januar~ 1865, he was
made major, then lieut snant colonel.
colonel and brigadier general. In a
cavalry fight at Dallas, Ga, his horse
was killed and Col Harnden was shot
in the shoulder and had his right arm
broken. He participated in the fight al
Duck Creek bridge. Tennessee, Wnen
the bridge fell down, letting portion
OF the regiment into the icy water. COL
Harnden's horse was drowned and ne
with a life already overlooking VIII
experiences, was carried down stream
two miles before being rescued Al
the storming Of TT. Tyler, Ga. he was
wounded by a rife ball.
In May. 1865, he was selected 0y zen
Wilson to take detachment Of the Is
Wisconsin cavalry and cross the coun
try towards Savannah and head of
Jen. Davis. then a fugitive. who wal