CHAPTER VII.
"Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career."
"But soon a funeral hymn was heard,
Where the soft breath of evening stirred
The tall, gray forest; and a band
Of stern in heart, and strong in hand.
Came winding down beside the wave.
To lay the red chief in his grave."
CAPTAIN Henry Christopher Wise, the subject of the present short memoir, was born at Rome, in the year 1829. His family reside at Woodcote, in Warwickshire, where his father is a gentleman possessed of considerable property; his mother being the third daughter of the late Sir Evan Skipwith, Bart, of Newbold Hall, in the same county. Of his early years we have no particular account, save of his being under the tuition, for some time, of the Rev. Wm. Nead, from whose care he proceeded to Eton, where, having remained two years, he was entered a student at the Royal Military College of Sandhurst. By steadiness, application, and good conduct, he soon gained the
