Franz Sigel
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Oct 5, 2026
James HouserHOST
Struve fought in three separate uprisings during 1848 to '49 and was able to escape the final collapse of the revolutions.
James HouserHOST
Alongside him was Franz Sigel, the Baden army officer who commanded one of the armies fighting for a united Germany.
James HouserHOST
Many Germans on both sides of the Atlantic saw Sigel as the revolution's great military hero.
James HouserHOST
Gustav Struve had made his way to America by 1851, Franz Sigel by 1852.
James HouserHOST
You briefly met August Willich, one of the most interesting of all the Forty-Eighters.
James HouserHOST
He was born Johann August Ernst von Willich, the son of a Prussian junker family.
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James HouserHOST
The troops, uh, got scared, panicked, and ended up firing into the crowd and killing twenty-eight civilians, mostly bystanders.
James HouserHOST
One of those nasty early events of the American Civil War.
JimmyHOST
Elsie Siegel was born in 1889 into one of New York's more visible families.
JimmyHOST
Her grandfather was Franz Siegel, the German-born Union general who didn't have the greatest battlefield record, but could recruit German-Americans in droves.
JimmyHOST
Her father Paul lived comfortably, and her mother Anne taught Sunday school for years at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue.
JimmyHOST
That class was aimed specifically at young Chinese men trying to learn English and find their footing in New York.
John HagedornHOST
But by May of 1864, the Confederacy was running out of men.
John HagedornHOST
Union General Franz Siegel had marched up the Shenandoah Valley with roughly 6,500 troops, aiming to seize the valley's rich farmland and cut off Confederate supply lines.
John HagedornHOST
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States, scrambled to assemble a force to stop him.
John HagedornHOST
Breckinridge gathered militia, reserves, and fragments of regiments, but he was still short.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Only one portion of the army was dissatisfied.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
The position recently occupied by General Franz Sigel, the favorite commander of the Eleventh Corps, had been given to General O.O. Howard.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
The numerous Germans in that corps were discontented at the change.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
They cared little for Howard's reputation as the Havelock of the army, an appellation he had gained from his zeal as a congregationalist.