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Von Borcke took up arms again in the spring of 1864, and was present at the Battle of Yellow Tavern (11 May 1864) against Philip Sheridan's cavalry, during which Jeb Stuart was mortally wounded by a bullet.
In December 1864, President Jefferson Davis appointed von Borcke lieutenant-colonel and sent the Prussian aristocrat on a diplomatic mission to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
In the spring of 1865, when it was clear that the Southern cause was lost, von Borcke returned to Prussia.
In 1866, Von Borcke distinguished himself during the Austro-Prussian War: he was part of the retinue of Prince Fredrich-Karl of Prussia, nephew of William I of Germany, during the decisive battle of Königgrätz (Bohemia, 3 July 1866) and his feats of arms earned him the Order of the Red Eagle.
Married to Madeleine Honig, father of three boys, suffering from a neck injury that had led to pulmonary complications, von Borcke left the army and resumed the life of a junker: he devoted himself to developing his estate at Sicht in West Prussia (now Poland). After his wife's death, von Bocke married his sister-in-law and had a daughter, whom he named "Caroline-Virginia". On special occasions, he flew the Stars and Bars, the Confederate flag, from the roof of his mansion. This was undoubtedly the case on 18 January 1871, at the coronation of William I (one of Otto von Bismarck's offspring, another junker) as Emperor of all Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
In 1884 he made a pilgrimage to Virginia, where he met up with his friends Wade Hampton III (former Lieutenant General of the Confederate Cavalry), William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and former Major General Matthew C. Butler.
In 1895 von Borcke died, at the age of 59, apparently from an infection resulting from a wound received at Middleburg in 1863.
Heros von Borcke published in 1867, by Mittler & Sohn (Berlin), an account of his stay in America: "Zwei Jahre in Sattel und am Feinde. Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhangigkeitskriege der Konföderierten". ("Two years in the saddle facing the enemy..."), which was translated into English (Edinburgh 1866) , and then published in America under the title "Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence. "
The pro-Southern writer and journalist Douglass Southall Freeman, (1886-1953), who wrote a 4-volume biography of Generalissimo Robert E. Lee mentions von Borcke. He says that after thinking on reading von Borcke's memoirs that the man 'was a real Baron Münchhausen', he came to realise that the Prussian 'was to be set apart among the authors of similar works, both by his avowed enthusiasm for the art of civilised warfare - and by his unique (as coming from both a European and an aristocrat) description of the Civil War'.
The book was republished in 2002 in the Southern Classics series by Sanders & Co, Nashville, Tennessee, (ISBN 1-879941-31-7).
Von Borcke collaborated with Justus Scheibert, an engineer officer he had met in Dixieland, to write: 'Die große Reiterschlacht bei Brandy Station 9. Juni 1863. Mit 6 Portraits, 5 Karten und 7 Vollbildern nach einem Kriegsskizzenbuch, gezeichnet von Schlachtenmaler C. Sellmer, Verlag Paul Kittel, Berlin 1893" ("The great cavalry battle at Brandy Station, June 1863″) "Mit Prinz Friedrich Karl. Kriegs- und Jagdfahrten und am häuslichen Herd" , Verlag Paul Kittel, Berlin 1893 ("With Prince Friedrich-Karl. Hunting and war travels...") "Junges Blut" ("Young Blood"), Verlag Paul Kittel, Berlin 1895″Auf dem Kriegspfade" ("On the warpath"), Verlag Paul Kittel, Berlin 1895
10. Mai 1895: Tod von Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke, dem südlichsten der Preußen
Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke (23. Juli 1835 - 10. Mai 1895) war ein preußischer Kavallerieoffizier ("Rittmeister") und ein Offizier in der Armee der Konföderierten Staaten. Seine Präsenz und sein Mut machten ihn zu einer historischen Figur sowohl in Preußen als auch im Bund.
