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	Franz Sigel - LoveToKnow 1911
		FRANZ SIGEL (1824-1902), German and American soldier, was born at Sinsheim, in Baden, on the 18th of November 1824.
		When the Baden insurrection broke out, Sigel was a leader on the revolutionary side in the brief campaign of 1848, and then took refuge in Switzerland.
		When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Sigel was active in raising and training Federal volunteer corps, and took a prominent part in the struggle for the possession of Missouri.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Franz_Sigel (421 words)

	Franz Sigel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franz Sigel (November 18, 1824 – August 21, 1902) was a German military officer and immigrant to the United States who was a teacher, newspaperman, politician, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War.
		Sigel was a good candidate to advance this plan and he was promoted to brigadier general on August 7, 1861, to rank from May 17.
		Franz Sigel died in New York in 1902 and is buried there in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Sigel (948 words)

	Franz Sigel (1824-1902)
		Over the winter of 1862-1863 Sigel commanded the XI Corps, consisting primarily of German immigrant soldiers in the Army of the Potomac.
		Sigel had developed a reputation as an inept general, but his ability to recruit and motivate German immigrants kept him alive in a politically sensitive position.
		Franz Sigel died in New York in 1902 and is buried there in Woodlawn Cemetery.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/sigel.html (826 words)

	Franz Sigel
		Franz Sigel was born in Baden, Germany, on 18th November, 1824.
		Sigel took part in the 1848 German Revolution and was afterwards forced to flee to Switzerland.
		Sigel commanded the 4th Brigade of Army of Southwest Missouri from January to February of 1862.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWsigel.htm (476 words)

	Sigel, Franz - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
		His command was routed at Wilson's Creek, but Sigel later distinguished himself in the campaign that rid Missouri of Confederate forces.
		After the war Sigel moved (1867) to New York City, where he held several political offices and was an editor of German periodicals.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sigel-fr.html (356 words)

	Major General Franz Sigel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in Germany, Sigel graduated at the military academy of Carlsruhe in 1841, and served as an officer in the regular army until 1847, when he resigned his commission.
		At the outbreak of the civil war, Sigel resigned these positions, and organized a regiment of infantry, a battalion of artillery of three batteries, and a squadron of cavalry.
		Gen. Sigel also commanded a brigade in the battle of Wilson's Creek under Gen. Lyon, a division in the campaign of Gen. Fremont, and two divisions in the battle of Pea Ridge.
	freepages.military.rootsweb.com.cob-web.org:8888 /~virgilgw/third/sigel.html (300 words)

	Across Five Aprils: People: Franz Sigel
		Born in Baden, Germany on November 18, 1824, Franz Sigel was a graduate of the German Military Academy who came to the United States by way of Switzerland and England after resigning his commission in the German Army and fighting in that
		Sigel resigned his position with the public school, and organized a regiment of infantry, a battalion of artillery, and a squadron of cavalry, made up essentially of German-Americans.
		Franz Sigel died in New York on August 21, 1902.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/sigel5.html (393 words)

	Major General Franz Sigel Department of West Virginia Commander Union Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Franz Sigel graduated from the Karlsruhe Military Academy of Baden (Germany) in 1843.
		Franz Sigel was appointed to a professorship at the German-American Institute in St. Louis in 1857.
		As a part of President Lincoln's plan to gain support of anti-slavery immigrants, Franz Sigel was appointed to be a Brigadier General in the Union Army on August 7, 1861.
	www.civilwarfamilyhistory.com /new_page_167.htm (375 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Camp: Brig. General Franz Siegel
		Franz Sigel was born in Baden, Germany on November 18, 1824.
		When Sigel arrived in the United States from Germany in 1852, he brought a reputation as a fighter and a liberal.
		Sigel was an odd combination of ineptitude and ability.
	www.usgennet.org /~ahmostlu/sigel.htm (396 words)

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		The Raid on Piedmont and the Crippling of Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley.
		Franz Sigel wurde 1824 in Sinsheim als Sohn eines Oberamtmannes geboren.
		Franz Sigel - Summary: "When I was coming to this country, a foreigner and stranger, I did not imagine that in so short atime the people of this great republic- the last refuge of liberty.
	www.andrews.edu /MDLG/german/german-american/notable/S/sigel_franz (115 words)

	Pea Ridge NMP: Federal Commaders - Brig Gen Franz Sigel
		Franz Sigel was one of the Union Army's worst and most controversial generals.
		Sigel played a prominent role in the events that led to Nathaniel Lyon's capture of the Missouri State Guard at Camp Jackson and was Lyon's second-in-command at Wilson's Creek.
		They claimed that Sigel urged Curtis to keep fighting and that Curtis was drunk while Sigel actually won the battle.
	www.nps.gov /peri/sigel.htm (372 words)

	The Raid on Piedmont and the Crippling of Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley
		In May 1864, as Sigel rested his army at Winchester, McNeill and Captain John T. Peerce, who was on detached duty and had agreed to join the expedition, led the rangers across Knobly Mountain at Doll's Gap and then the summit of the Allegheny by the Elk Garden road onto the Piedmont-Bloomington road.
		Sigel also noted that Governor Boreman was given "timely notice" of some three weeks to utilize the state militia in filling the void.
		Franz Sigel, a popular German-American general, was then on inactive status which posed a problem for the War Department.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh55-2.html (6480 words)

	Battles and Battlefields of 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley
		In early May of 1864, Major General Franz Sigel was ordered to take a sizable army and move up (south) through the Shenandoah, with his opposite number, John C. Breckenridge preparing to stop him.
		Franz Sigel was to move south through the Shenandoah and link up with Grant for the drive on Richmond.
		Sigel reaped the benefits of this philosophy, for, throughout his military career, in Germany as well as in the United States, he had shown very little competence on the battlefield.
	www.angelfire.com /wv/wasec9/1864.html (1569 words)

	Eagle Eye Civil War Token page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Franz Sigel left his native Germany for Missouri following his involvement in the March 1848 revolution in Germany.
		When the Civil War broke out, Sigel was teaching at a military institute in St. Louis.
		Sigel's forces joined with General Samuel Curtis' troops and dug in at Pea Ridge Ridge in northwest Arkansas.
	www.indiancent.com /market/sigel.htm (299 words)

	Untitled Document
		Considered a hero by his German countrymen and a coward by many Americans, Franz Sigel is remembered as much for his military shortcomings as for his accomplishments.
		Sigel was ineffective in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864, by which time he had earned the reputation of being “hell on retreat.”
		Sigel had a rigid character that invited criticism, according to Stephen D. Engle in his book “Yankee Dutchman: the Life of Franz Sigel.” Yet Engle calls Sigel's obsession with discipline his most significant attribute as a military commander.
	www.dnronline.com /civilwar/part-1/peo-mil-sigel.htm (628 words)

	CWTS Article of the Month-January 1999
		One of the most famous was Franz Sigel who is remembered by CWT collectors as the dashing figure who appears on Patriotic dies 180 and 181.
		Franz Sigel was born in Badmen, Germany in 1824.
		Following the battle Sigel was removed from field command, and he resigned his commission a year later.
	www.cwtsociety.com /AOTM/199902.html (662 words)

	Germans Under a New Flag - Social Aspects of the Civil War - Civil War Institute - National Park Service
		It was in Missouri that ethnic prejudice and political rivalry between immigrants and native-born citizens of the state led to military action and ultimately to the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
		Franz Sigel remained an important symbol for German Americans in Missouri and the rest of the North, as an immigrant who attained fame leading other Germans in defense of both democratic principles and their adopted country.
		Without Sigel, the Missouri Germans and their beliefs, the Civil War in the West would have taken an entirely different course and the Union cause in Missouri would not have prevailed.
	www.itd.nps.gov /cwss/manassas/social/wilsoncreek.htm (640 words)

	FRANZ SIGEL (1824–1902) - Online Information article about FRANZ SIGEL (1824–1902)
		War broke out in 1861, Sigel was active in raising and training Federal volunteer See also:
		CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
		General Sigel's last years were de-voted to the editorship of the New York Monthly, a German-American periodical.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIGEL_FRANZ_18241902_.html (878 words)

	FRANZ SIGEL PARK - Historical Sign
		Educator, soldier, journalist, and public official, Franz Sigel (1824-1902) was a patriot both in his native land of Germany and in his adopted home in the United States.
		Sigel returned to New York in 1867, first working in the transportation industry and then serving in various positions in local and Federal government.
		In 1907 Sigel's contribution to the Union victory was commemorated by sculptor Karl Bitter (1867-1915) in an equestrian statue that was erected at Riverside Drive and West 106th Street.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=6450 (460 words)

	Battle Summary: Carthage, MO
		Franz Sigel led another force of about 1,000 into southwest Missouri in search of the governor and his loyal troops.
		Upon learning that Sigel had encamped at Carthage, on the night of July 4, Jackson took command of the troops with him and formulated a plan to attack the much smaller Union force.
		By evening, Sigel was inside Carthage and under cover of darkness; he retreated to Sarcoxie.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/mo002.htm (243 words)

	Franz Sigel - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sigel plante in Heidelberg Jura zu studieren, jedoch kamen die revolutionären Ereignisse dazwischen.
		Franz Sigel, von der badischen Revolution erfasst, stellte 1848 zunächst ein Freikorps mit 500 Mann auf, nahm an der Offenburger Versammlung teil und beteiligte sich am letztlich erfolglosen Heckerzug.
		Sigels größter Erfolg war die gewonnene Schlacht von Pea Ridge im März 1862, in der er zwei der vier Divisionen der US-Truppen befehligte.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Franz_Sigel (745 words)

	Germans in the Civil War: I goes to fight mit Sigel, by William Keel \| Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS
		Trained as a military officer in the regular army of Baden, he quickly sided with the revolutionaries in 1848 and eventually was minister of war in the provisional republic hastily declared in May 1849.
		Fred's regiment together with the 3rd Missouri was placed under the command of Sigel and sent by rail to Rolla, Missouri, and on to Springfield to cut off the Missouri forces sympathetic to the South.
		Meanwhile, the two columns of Federal troops under Lyon and Sigel, respectively, were converging on Springfield in pursuit of the Missouri governor and his militia.
	www.skyways.org /orgs/fordco/keel.html (945 words)

	Carthage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sigel had a weak brigade against the division of Missouri State Guards.
		Franz Sigel led another force of about 1,000 into southwest Missouri in search of the governor and his troops.
		After learning that Sigel was camped at Carthage, on the night of July 4 Jackson took drew up a plan to attack the much smaller Union force.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/battles/states/missouri/0007.cfm (234 words)

	Franz Sigel Sonderausstellung (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Er wuchs als Sohn des Oberamtmanns Moritz Sigel in einem Haus in der Sinsheimer Hauptstraße auf und besuchte später das Gymnasium in Bruchsal.
		1849 traf Sigel mit den führenden Köpfen des Landesausschusses; Brentano, Eichfeld, Struve und Goegg zusammen, wurde schließlich mit knapp 25 Jahren Oberbefehlshaber der badischen Revolutionsarmee und Kriegsminister der provisorischen Regierung.
		Sigel gelang es, Tausende von deutschen Einwanderern und ganz Missouri für die Union zu gewinnen.
	www.sinsheim.de.cob-web.org:8888 /htmlfusion/html/body_franzsigelsonderausstellung.html (272 words)

	Battle Summary: New Market, VA
		Franz Sigel to move up the Shenandoah Valley along the Valley Pike with 10,000 men to destroy the railroad and canal complex at Lynchburg.
		At New Market on the 15th, Sigel was attacked by a makeshift Confederate army of about 4,100 men commanded by Maj. Gen.
		Sigel retreated down the Valley to Strasburg and was soon replaced by Maj. Gen.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/va110.htm (183 words)

	Welcome to Shenandoah at War - New Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Threatened by the Confederate cavalry on his left flank and rear, Sigel ordered a general withdrawal, burning the North Fork Bridge behind him as he retreated north to Cedar Creek.
		Sigel’s defeat resulted in his relief of command and replacement by Gen. David Hunter.
		The Battle of New Market was one of the last major Confederate victories in the Shenandoah Valley and was the only instance in American history where a student body—the VMI Corps of Cadets—participated in a pitched battle.
	www.shenandoahatwar.org /battlefields/n_market_battlefield.html (270 words)

	Sign at Rude's Hill
		Union Gen. Franz Sigel was assigned the task of securing the Shenandoah Valley, always one of the Civil War's most hotly contested areas.
		On the last day of April 1864, Sigel, with 9,000 men and 28 guns, marched south from Martinsburg.
		By May 11, Sigel's advance ran into Confederates posted at Rude's Hill under the command of a Maryland Confederate, Capt. T.
	www.civilwarfieldtrips.com /newmarket/pages/000sign.html (151 words)

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