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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
journals, and from the article entitled "Henningsen" in the American Encyclopedia: Gen C. F. Henningsen was born in London. though of Scandinavian extraction, in the year 1816. When seventeen years of age, the Spanish war then attracting the attention of Europe, he volunteered to serve under Zumalcarregul, in the Basque Provinces, and speedily arose to be Captain of Zumalcarregul's body guard, Knight of S, Ferdinandete. The Elliott Convention, the paternity of which is ascribed to Col. Gurwood, the editor of Wellington's dispatches, sent young Henningsen to England, where justice was done him by Mr. Lockhart, in an article in the Quarterly Review, on Henningsen's History of the war in Spain. This work won him the favor and friendship of both wellington and South, who had been rival commanders in the Peninsula war. Returning to Spain, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before he was twenty, he was indebted to a fortunate accident for his first important command. Gen. Delacy