Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... ADDENDA. Since the foregoing pages were printed, Mr. Ad. Kiefer, formerly adjutant of the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, has furnished the following notices of German officers who served With credit in the army of the United States during the war for the Union, viz., --Lorenz Cantador, born in Diisseldorf about 1815, served for some years as an officer in the Prussian Landwehr, took a not unimportant part in the political uprising of 1848 in the Rhenish Provinces, came to Philadelphia about. 1851, went into the volunteer service as lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, under Bushbeck, and died in New York in 1880. Adolph Dengler, born in Baden about 1825, took part in the revolution in 1849 in that state, came to the United States in 1850, entered the service in a Missouri regiment as captain in 1861, and as colonel of the regiment at the siege of Vicksburg, was wounded and shortly after died. He was an earnest, single-minded patriot, and a conspicuously gallant soldier. Hugo Dilger, probably the most brilliant German officer of the war, familiarly known in the war correspondence of the time as "Leather-breeches," commanded an independent Ohio battery during the war, and therefore never obtained a higher rank than that of captain, but more brilliant service, and more of it, was not rendered by any officer of German birth. He resigned a lieutenancy in the Baden Mounted Artillery to take part in the American civil war, and after the war became a farmer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. (See p. 253.) Philip Schopp was born in Bavaria in 1828, and was engaged in the revolution of 1848-49; came to the United States in 1850, was employed as a civil engineer in Pennsylvania until 1861, raised a...
