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See also:SIGEL, See also:FRANZ (1824–1902) , See also:German and See also:American soldier, was See also:born at Sinsheim, in See also:Baden, on the 18th of See also:November 1824. He graduated at the military school at Carlsruhe, and became an officer in the See also:grand ducal service. He soon became known for revolutionary opinions, and in 1847, after killing an opponent in a See also:duel, he resigned his See also:commission. When the Baden insurrection See also:broke out, Sigel was a See also:leader on the revolutionary See also:side in the brief See also:campaign of 1848, and then took See also:refuge in See also:Switzerland. In the following See also:year he returned to Baden and took a conspicuous See also:part in the more serious operations of the second outbreak under See also:General See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Mieroslawski (1814–1878.) Sigel subsequently lived in Switzerland, See also:England and the See also:United States, whither he emigrated in 1852, the usual See also:life of a See also:political See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, working in turn as journalist and schoolmaster, and both at New See also:York and St Louis, whither he removed in 1858, he conducted military See also:journals. When the American See also:Civil See also:War broke out in 1861, Sigel was active in raising and training Federal volunteer See also:corps, and took a prominent part in the struggle for the See also:possession of See also:Missouri. He became in May a brigadier-general U.S.V,, and served with Nathaniel See also:Lyon at See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson's See also:Creek and with J. C. See also:Fremont in the advance on See also:Spring-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in the autumn. In 1862 he took a conspicuous part in the desperately fought See also:battle of See also:Pea See also:Ridge, which definitely secured Missouri for the Federals. He was promoted to be See also:major-general of See also:volunteers, was ordered to See also:Virginia, and was soon placed in command of the I. corps of See also:Pope's " See also:Army of Virginia." In this capacity he took part in the second See also:Bull Run campaign, and his corps displayed the utmost gallantry in the unsuccessful attacks on Bald See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill. Up to the beginning of 1863, when See also:bad See also:health obliged him to take leave of See also:absence, Sigel remained in command of his own (now called the XI.) corps and the XII., the two forming a " Grand See also:Division." In See also:June 1863 he was in command of large forces in See also:Pennsylvania, to make See also:head against See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's second invasion of See also:Northern territory. In 1864 he was placed in command of the corps in the See also:Shenandoah Valley, but was defeated by General See also:John C. See also:Breckinridge at See also:Newmarket (15th of May), and was superseded. Subsequently he was in command of the Harper's See also:Ferry See also:garrison at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Early's See also:raid upon See also:Washington and made a brilliant See also:defence of his See also:post(See also:July 4-5, 1864). He resigned his commission in May 1865, and became editor of a German See also:journal in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland. In 1867 he removed to New York See also:City, and in 1869 was the unsuccessful Republican See also:candidate for secretary of See also:state of New York. He was appointed See also:collector of See also:internal See also:revenue in May 1871, and in the following See also:October he was elected See also:register of New York City by Republicans and " reform Democrats." From 1885 to 1889, having previously become a Democrat, he was See also:pension See also:agent for New York City, on the See also:appointment of See also:President See also:Cleveland. General Sigel's last years were de-voted to the editorship of the New York Monthly, a German-American periodical. He died in New York City on the 21st of See also:August 1902. A See also:monument (by Karl See also:Bitter) in his See also:honour was unveiled in See also:Riverside Drive, New York City, in October 1907.
End of Article: SIGEL, FRANZ (1824–1902)
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