August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General
by David Dixon
appears in Civil War.
An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary foreignborn population. One of these, Prussian Army officer Johann August Ernst von Willich, led a remarkable life of integrity, commitment to a cause, and interaction with leading lights of the nineteenth century. After r...
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