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XXXVIII.— Obituary. 
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, when he acted as Paymaster 
of the Imperial Yeomanry and received the C.B.; garrison 
duty in Barbados and Natal—all these he experienced, and 
it also 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 
