And General Henningsen was one who spoke with
authority. Before he joined Walker he had served in Spain under
Don Carlos, in Hungary under Kossuth, and in Bulgaria.
Of Walker's men, a regiment of which he commanded, he writes:
"I often have seen them march with a broken or compound
fractured arm in splints, and using the other to fire the rifle or
revolver. Those with a fractured thigh or wounds which rendered
them incapable of removal, shot themselves. Such men do not turn
up in the average of everyday life, nor do I ever expect to see their
like again. All military science failed on a suddenly given field
before such assailants, who came at a run to close with their
revolvers and who thought little of charging a gun battery, pistol in
hand."
Another graduate of Walker's army was Captain Fred Townsend
Ward, a native of Salem, Mass., who after the death of Walker
organized and led the ever victorious army that put down the
Tai-Ping rebellion, and performed the many feats of martial glory
for which Chinese Gordon received the credit. In Shanghai, to the
memory of the filibuster, there are to-day two temples in his honor.
Joaquin Miller, the poet, miner, and soldier, who but recently was
a picturesque figure on the hotel porch at Saratoga Springs, was
one of the young Californians who was "out with Walker," and
who later in his career by his verse helped to preserve the name of
his beloved commander.
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