[5] After the Battle of Schleswig and the defeat in the battle near Oeversee, Tscherning dispatched the Colonel on the General Staff and later Minister of War Christian Frederik von Hansen to the Army High Command, with the authority to intervene to the extent necessary if the army command did not act in Tscherning's direction.

[6][5] Hansen initially saw no reason to intervene and subsequently took over command of the parts of the Danish army that had returned to Alsen.

In May the Army High Command and the War Ministry agreed to take the offensive again with the troops on Als and to attack the Sundewitt Peninsula, which was occupied by the Germans .

Hedemann did not overcome this degradation, although the king also appointed him Chamberlain and in 1853 Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

[6] Hedemann died in Copenhagen in 1859, he was buried in the garrison cemetery, where his grave with his portrait medallion has been preserved.