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	August Willich, 1810-1878 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WILLICH, AUGUST* was born November 19, 1810, in Braunsberg, Prussia.
		In 1858, Willich was employed at the German-language newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		In August 1861, Governor Oliver P. Morton of Indiana commissioned Willich as the colonel of the 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, an all-German, all-Indiana unit.
	www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/willich.htm (299 words)

	Civil War Indiana Biographies -August (von) Willich
		August (von) Willich was born November 19, 1810, in Braunsberg, Prussia.
		Willich fought with revolutionaries in Baden in 1848 then fled to the United States, where he settled in New York and worked as a carpenter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
		Willich was brevetted major general October 21, 1865, was mustered out of the service on January 15, 1866, and served three years as county auditor in Cincinnati.
	civilwarindiana.com /biographies/willich_august_von.html (411 words)

	August Willich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August von Willich (November 19, 1810 – January 22, 1878) was a military officer in the Prussian army and a leading early proponent of Communism in Germany.
		Willich became known as one of the "Ohio Hegelians" (followers of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), along with John Bernhard Stallo, Moncure Daniel Conway and Peter Kaufmann.
		Governor Oliver P. Morton commissioned Willich as Colonel of the 32nd Indiana (an all-German regiment), and he led it at the Battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Willich (765 words)

	August Willich in the Civil War
		Young August as part of the elite Junker class entered the prestigious military academy of Potsdam at the age of 12 and by 15 was an ensign in the Prussian army.
		Due to political considerations August Willich was not made the colonel of the regiment but rather a prominent lawyer in Cincinnati named Robert L. McCook was given the commission.
		Willich is disguised as the majestic figure of Valerius Gratus, the imperial governor of Judea as he marches his soldiers into Jerusalem amid the jeers and insults of the Jews.
	www.civilwarinteractive.com /ArticleWillich.htm (2485 words)

	StrategyPage.com - Combat Information Center analysis, facts and figures about military conflicts and leaders - ...
		A Prussian aristocrat, August von Willich was probably the only communist general in ths history of United States Army, and certainly the only general who was a personal acquaintance of Karl Marx.
		Becoming a marxian socialist, Willich's public criticisms of the prevailing social order led to a court martial, and in 1846 he was forced to resign from the army.
		Willich quickly raised 1,500 leftist German volunteers, who soon formed the 9th Ohio, in which he was commisisoned a captain.
	www.strategypage.com /cic/docs/cic77c.asp (617 words)

	Friends' Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1, Fall 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willich's humanist philosophy proposed that, through Bildung, selfishness and self-interest might be put to rest and human beings empowered to act as responsible members of a larger community.
		Willich's volunteers described themselves as the Workers' Legion and were inspired by the example of their commander who shared their poverty, took no privilege, and did not shirk difficult manual labor.
		Willich is often credited with anticipating the American democratic socialism of the later nineteenth century, one which emphasized the role of labor unions and encouraged the political activity of workers.
	csumc.wisc.edu:16080 /mki/Newsletter/newsf97.html (5038 words)

	August Willich
		WlLLICH, August, born in Gorzyn, in the Prussian province of Posen, in 1810; died in St. Mary's, Mercer County, Ohio, 23 January, 1878.
		When the great revolution of 1848 threatened the overthrow of all European monarchies, Willich, with several former army friends, among whom were Franz Sigel, Friederich K. Hecker, Louis Blenkel, and Carl Schurz, went to Baden and took an active part in the armed attempt to revolutionize Germany.
		Willich devoted himself to this regiment, and with such good results that, on 26 November, 1861, three companies, deployed as skirmishers, repelled in confusion a regiment of Texan rangers.
	www.famousamericans.net /augustwillich (890 words)

	Ridertown.com
		In August, 1831, treaties were made with the Senecas of Lewiston and the Shawnees of Wapakoneta, buy James Gardiner, Esq., and Col. John M'Elvain, special commissioners appointed for this purpose, by which the Indians consented to give up their land and remove beyond the Mississippi.
		Willich, then a captain, was sent to Fort Kolberg in 1846; he resigned his commission, which a year later was accepted.
		At this point General Willich said that he saw to obey General Grant's orders and remain in the works at the foot of the Ridge would be the destruction of the centre.
	www.ridertown.com /history/howe.html (4277 words)

	German American Corner: History of the Thirty-Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
		Willich drilled his regiment, in German, to a high degree.
		Willich was captured and sent to Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Eventually he was paroled, returned to brigade.
		Willich who had been wounded at Resaca, Ga., was promoted to brevet major general and put in command of Cincinnati.
	www.germanheritage.com /Essays/1848/germanarmy.html (1113 words)

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		Willich's immediate supervisor, Captain John Newland Maffitt of the U.S. Navy, later became the commander of the Confederate commerce raider Florida.
		August Willich immediately enlisted as a private in the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment in April 1861, along with four companies he had personally organized.
		Willich was quickly elected adjutant and given sole responsibility for the training of the regiment while McCook mastered the administrative and bureaucratic aspects involved.
	www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/peake/p2.html (585 words)

	15th OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY-(Descendants Assoc.)
		On August 10th, Col. August Willich, the Prussian commander of the 32nd Indiana, was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of the brigade.
		Willich's Brigade was assigned as the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps--Army of the Cumberland.
		Willich's Brigade was fronted by the 39th and 32nd Indiana with the 49th Ohio placed to their right rear, all facing South.
	www.webspawner.com /users/15thovvi (1977 words)

	Marxism message, Re: August Willich (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		August Willich, a military by training, had commanded the republican troops in Baden.
		Jenny was left with the impression that he tried to seduce her and, in her memoirs, mentions the fact that he wanted to visit her and "pursue the worm that lives in any marriage".
		One of them was the writing by Marx and Engels of a farce called 'Heroes of the Exile', caricaturing the actions and personalities of August Willich, Arnold Ruge and Gottfried Kinkel, who were the public darlings of german democracy in London (associated with the circle of Mazzini).
	archives.econ.utah.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /archives/marxism/2001w11/msg00245.htm (624 words)

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		He selected August Willich, among the most notable of German exiles in America, who was unanimously elected colonel of the new command by all parties.
		August von Willich, the younger son of an aristocratic Prussian captain of Hussar cavalry, began his military career in 1822, at the age of twelve, entering Potsdam Military Academy as a cadet and completing studies three years later at the Royal Military Academy of Berlin.
		As one of the major leaders in the struggle for "Unity, Justice and Freedom," Willich skillfully directed a unit known as "Willich's Free Corps" until the overwhelming Prussian army defeated the revolutionaries in the battle of Kandern/Black Forest, April 20, 1848.
	www.ulib.iupui.edu /KADE/peake/p1.html (476 words)

	No (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A reconnaissance to ascertain the direction the enemy had retreated was made by a brigade of my command, commanded by Brigadier General August Willich.
		About dark I placed General Willich's brigade on the right of Kirk's, refusing his right, and directing a heavy line of skirmishers to be thrown forward, connecting on the left with those of General Davis, and extending to the right and rear, near the Wilkinson pike.
		Before falling back, the horse of General Willich was killed, and he was wounded and taken prisoner.
	hometown.aol.com /stonesriverdan/johnsondiv.html (2072 words)

	ACWS Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willich knew he was close to the Confederate lines and should have "expected the worst" but he still allowed his brigade to stack arms and go into overnight bivouac.
		Willich himself had ridden back to his commander’s HQ to report that "all was quiet" in his sector.
		Willich was startled to hear the roar of cannon and musketry fire, but mounted quickly to return to his brigade.
	www.acws.co.uk /archives/misc/factoid.htm (10451 words)

	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Chapter 5
		At the head of this Cologne insurrection there were two men, Gotschalk, a physician who was very popular among the poor and the workers of Cologne, and the ex-officer, August Willich (1810-1878).
		In contradistinction to his opponents, the most important among whom were Schapper and Willich, Marx, true to his method, insisted that every political revolution was the effect of definite economic causes, of a certain economic revolution.
		Willich, Schapper, a number of other members of the Cologne Workingmen's Union, and the old Weitlingites, coalesced.
	www.workers.org /cm/ch05.html (4861 words)

	CIVIL WAR MONUMENT PRESERVATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		August (von) Willich, the regimental commander was born November 19, 1810, in Braunsberg, Prussia.
		By the age of eighteen, he was a lieutenant in the Prussian army and a captain three years later.
		Surrounded by Texas Rangers, Sachs and four of his men were struck down in a blaze of gunfire after defiantly choosing to fight rather than to surrender.
	www.indianainthecivilwar.com /monpres.htm (967 words)

	Cemeteries - Cave Hill National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		August Willich are interred in graves 1-12, Section C. The troops perished in a battle at Rowlett Station between the 500 men under Willich’s command and 3,000 Confederates.
		The 32nd Indiana Monument is the oldest Civil War monument in America; it was created in early 1862 and was moved to the cemetery in 1867.
		The limestone block was carved by August Bloedner, who served with the 32nd Indiana, or “First German,” Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was composed entirely of recent German immigrants.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/cavehill.asp (918 words)

	30th Indiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The seven Rebel brigades concentrated on Kirk's and August Willich's brigades.
		Five color bearers of the 34th Illinois were killed before the Rebels took their colors and drove them back.
		Willich's brigade suffered 463 casualties, and 700 men surrendered.
	www.30thindiana.org /stonesriver_history.htm (327 words)

	August Willich
		August Willich was born in Germany in 1810.
		Willich emigrated to America and worked as a carpenter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
		A follower of Karl Marx, Willich later he found work as a journalist.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWwillich.htm (195 words)

	9th Ohio Infantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Attached to 3rd Brigade, Army of Occupation, W. Va., to August, 1861.
		Moved to Decherd, Tenn., July 27, thence march to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.
		Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
	www.ohiocivilwar.com /cw9.html (693 words)

	Willich's Brigade Descendants Association
		We are looking to locate all monuments, markers and final resting places of those who served with the brigade of General August Willich.
		General Willich's Brigade was a part of the 4th Corps during the campaign and the men came to have a deep respect for General Howard.
		This gun was captured at Chickamauga by Walthall's and Govan's Brigade of Walker's Corps of the Confederate Army on the 19th of September, 1863.
	www.15thohio.4t.com /about.html (1658 words)

	Biographies
		However, Willich believed that democratic self-government, constitutional freedoms, education, a commitment to social reforms and the uplifting of the laboring classes would solve the problems of his day.
		Willich drilled his troops in sharp Prussian form, addressed them as citizens of the republic, and earned their respect by sharing their privations and taking the lead when the fighting was heaviest.
		Willich was brevetted major general on 21 Oct. 1865, was mustered out of the service on 15 Jan. 1866, and served three years as county auditor in Cincinnati.
	www.aotc.net /bios.htm (20000 words)

	August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen : Joseph R. Reinhart
		August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen : Joseph R. Reinhart
		Organized by Colonel August Willich, a former Prussian army officer who led troops during the German Revolution of 1848, Indiana’s German 32nd Indiana regiment fought in the Western Theater of the Civil War.
		The 32nd Indiana forged an enviable combat record on the battlefields at Rowlett’s Station in Kentucky; at Shiloh, Stones River, and Missionary Ridge in Tennessee; and at Chickamauga and Pickett’s Mill in Georgia.
	upress.kent.edu /books/Reinhart.htm (276 words)

	Battle for the Bridge Historic Preserve - Forts Terrill and Willich
		Fort Willich was armed with one 10-pounder Parrott, one 3.8-inch James rifle, two 12-pounder light guns, two 6-pounder smooth-bores, and two 24-pounder Howitzers.
		The heavy artillery companies consisted of the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery (3 companies) from September 1863 to August 1864, and the 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery (3-4 companies) from August 1864 to June 1865.
		Forts Willich and Terrill were generally garrisoned by one or two companies, while Battery McConnell and Battery Simons were generally garrisoned by half a company or a detachment.
	www.scrtc.com /~ftcraig/northforts.htm (498 words)

	The 32nd Indiana Infantry
		ORGANIZED at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in August 24, 1861.
		Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August.
		March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.
	www.geocities.com /ind32ndinfantry (565 words)

	The Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgia
		At 9AM Willich's brigade (of which the 89th Illinois was part) began a forward movement against the ridge.
		General Willich was severely wounded that day, shot by a rebel rebel skirmisher through the right shoulder and side (he never regained full use of his right arm).
		The men of Willich's brigade (Colonel William Gibson had replaced the injured Willich) were mystified and annoyed to learn that Gibson had elected to have all orders transmitted by bugle call.
	www.geocities.com /pearson63147/89il.htm (5956 words)

	CNHI News Service ‘Firm and fast and fearless’
		Reinhart’s third book, “August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry,” features a unit whose Company H, “New Albany Company,” included many Southern Indiana men.
		Daily a crowd of people streams there to watch the maneuvers and evolutions, and probably no one leaves the place without astonishment and amazement that Colonel Willich was able to accomplish so much with his troops in so little time.
		It is forbidden to bring whiskey into the camp, in return the sutler Krokel delights the thirsty souls with a foaming glass of beer.
	www.cnhins.com /featuresrollup/cnhinslocalhistory_story_274103602.html (810 words)

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