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She was born on December 25, 1840 on a farm in Franklin County, Vermont, United States, or possibly in Philipsburg, Que. , where part of her girlhood was spent. The daughter of William and Julia (Willard) Joy and the granddaughter of Micah Joy, a Revolutionary soldier, she was descended from Thomas Joy.
Little is known of the early life of Agnes Salm-Salm. Many scholars believe that she worked in a circus, then as an actress in Cuba. In 1861 she returned to the United States but soon left her home in Vermont to visit her sister in Washington, D. C. who was getting married to Prince Felix.
Prince Felix had a post as adjutant of Louis Blenker in the Army of the Potomac, and soon proceeded to the front. Agnes could not be apart from Felix for too long and eventually followed him to the battlefield. At his camp she would care for the sick and wounded soldiers although she had no previous knowledge of medicine.
Upon being mustered out, her husband embarked in February 1866 for Mexico, where the Austrian archduke, Maximilian, was struggling to maintain himself as emperor in the face of the forces headed by President Juarez. Salm-Salm became Maximilian's chief aide, and his wife followed him to Mexico and shared all his anxieties. When Queretaro fell by treason and Maximilian and his suite were captured and threatened with summary execution, she braved all obstacles and dangers to go to their rescue.
When intercession failed, she plotted the Emperor's escape, offering his keeper large bribes of money or anything else within her gift; failing, she clasped the knees of President Juarez, praying for mercy, but without success. Salm-Salm next became a major in the Prussian Guards, and in the ensuing war with France was killed (1870).
The Princess, experienced in army relief work in America, obtained from General von Steinmetz permission to accompany his staff on horseback and to carry on a relief work in camps and field hospitals like that since developed under the Red Cross. Generals von Goeben and Fransecky thanked her personally and in the name of the army for her services.
Left a widow at thirty, after a decade of breathless activity, she went to Rome to consult Pope Pius IX with regard to entering a convent, but he told her that she had no vocation to be a nun, and she eventually settled down to the routine of German social life, residing first at Bonn and later at Karlsruhe.
In 1875, at Stuttgart, she published Zehn Jahre aus Meinem Leben, three volumes covering her decade of war service. It was published in English as Ten Years of My Life.
She revisited America in 1899, bringing the flags of the Prince Salm-Salm's regiments and being warmly greeted by Carl Schurz and other wartime friends; in 1899-1900 she came again, seeking funds for an ambulance corps for the Boers. Twelve years later she died at Karlsruhe.
Being the wife of Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, a Prussian mercenary, she played a role in the American Civil War, the Mexican Civil War between President Benito Juárez and the Austrian archduke Maximilian I of Mexico, and the Franco-Prussian War. Agnes made great efforts to spare the life of Maximilian and her husband, traveling several times from Querétaro to Mexico City and San Luis Potosí where she held interviews with President Benito Juárez, General Mariano Escobedo, General Porfirio Díaz and several other prominent officers of the Republican Army. Maximilian decorated her with the Grand Cordon of the Order of San Carlos, and later his brother, the Austrian emperor, pensioned her. She received the Prussian Medal of Honor and was recommended for the Iron Cross, a decoration reserved for men
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Her husband was Catholic and she was Protestant.
She had an adventurous spirit. She was red-haired, strong willed, small, and dainty.
Under the name of Agnes Leclercq, she was married, Aug. 20, 1862, to a German soldier of fortune, Felix Constantin Alexander Johann Nepomuk, Prince Salm-Salm (1828 - 1870), a colonel on Gen. Louis Blenker's staff. Her energy and cleverness secured for him the colonelcy of the 8th New York Infantry, and later of the 68th.
In 1876 she married the secretary of the British legation at Berlin, Charles Heneage, from whom she later separated.
