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XXXVIII.— OAi/MGry. 



Henry Wemyss Feilden. 



Soldier and ornithologist, explorer and geologist, sports- 

 man and botanist, author and archaeologist — to few men has 

 it been given to fill so many parts and so well as to Henry 

 Wemyss Feilden. 



Born in 1838, the second son of Sir William Feilden, 

 second baronet of Feniscowles, Lancashire, he died on ' 

 8 June, 1921, at Burwash in East Sussex, in his 83rd year. 

 He entered the Army at the age of nineteen, and his military 

 career was varied and extensive: India and the Mutiny, 

 China and the Taku Forts, the Boer Campaign in 1881, and 

 the Great Boer War in 1890, wdien he acted as Paymaster 

 of the Imperial Yeomanry and received the O.B.; garrison 

 dut}^ in Barbados and Natal — all these he experienced, and 

 it al^o fell to his strange lot to occupy the post of A.A.G. 

 to the Confederate Army in the American Civil War from 

 1862-1865. The circumstances under which he held this 

 appointment were, that the chiefs of the Confederate forces 

 having made the attempt to conduct their campaign without 

 the discipline of military law, and having failed to do so, 

 turned in their difficulty to Henry Feilden, then on leave in 

 the Southern States and deeply sympathetic with their cause, 

 and enlisted his aid. He surrendered, after the last battle of 

 the Civil War between the North and South, with the remnant 

 of the army of Tennessee under General J. E. Johnston, to 

 General Sherman. In 1864 he married Julia, daughter of 

 Judge David MacCord of South Carolina, who, after more 

 than half a century of happy married life, predeceased him 

 by a year, and from the shock of whose death he never 

 recovered. There were no children of the marriage. 



As an ornithologist, Feilden was perhaps best known for 

 his work in connection with the Arctic Expedition of 

 Admiral (then Captain) Nares in 1875, to whose command 



