Franz Sigel
Officer in the Grand Duchy of Baden; US Union Army general; civil servant (1824-1902) · Politicians · Died at 77
Franz Sigel was a German-born American military officer and revolutionary who immigrated to the United States where he worked as a teacher, newspaperman, and politician along with serving as a major general in the Union army during the American Civil War.
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His ability to recruit German-speaking immigrants to the Union armies received the approval of President Abraham Lincoln, but he was strongly disliked by General-in-Chief Henry Halleck.
