The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-01
rarsign Ldventurerg in the o. S. Army.

Foreign Adventures in the o. S. Army.
Aaa5s the Washington correspondent of the GIN
cilr zette witds fatality seems to have attend
WI Gert4n class of military officers who LETT foreign
services tender their swords to the great republic
ANA eth er dhv for example, Maj. Won Hammersten,
formerly IN oficdr of McCieans staff mustered
ou+ ~ - service. He drew Sl700 Of back pay and
allowances and vert over to New York. a born gam
bier az d many Of the Austrian and Prussian army
oCe re- be could not resist the temptation to try his
lraa Tit SO handsome a sum in the New ork gam
bling ders in single night he lost the entire amount
THE laH morning penniless, utterly destitute, ana
stang 81 n sense of his disgrace, this high-born Aus
raa e and gneritorious officer enlisted as private
X lar 81 suar Amy and is carrying musket.
Maaag Fon Hsmulerstein officer Of falr stand
iug a e Austrian service and inherited the title OF
baron It was hnted that he left Austria because over
q a with bling debts, which the slender pay
~ 7 INV officer would suffice to wipe out. He
ans aeas first appointed Benkers staff. Suisse
annnfr ne was transferred to McClellans and after
taa5 cDoweiI's. Finally he got the command OF
regiment And now, has just been stated he Is serV
ing asa rivate In the regular army.
"a t8raa disgrbcefu case that of Col. on hado.
witt q Of the distinguished Russian statesman ana
l5aa tary author, Gen. Won Radowitz THIS officer
served Ter time the staff OF Gen. Mcclellan, ana
after 7 hat of Gen. Heintzelman.
4aa83 detected in the act of drawing pay several
times b. the same period of service applying to differ
art masters aud satisfying each that he had not
brgr fyiously paid for that month quarter. He
gas Used from the service Appealing to another
officer succeeded in procuring temporary loan OF
lu#rld dollars, and with this started for California
Hawss n officer in the Prussian army, and IS also
understood to have been overwhelmed with gambling
deb home 4,,ot
br con lon reiute throughout the army prince sam
e- the stupides officer in it, The stupid fellow
E fs- fortune chose knowing all the circumstances
uga hlrdy venture to say the good oruneg TO marry
is rer gretty and very smart American woman whom
lg 1.i III Havana.
T retty woman made desperate effort, at the
BAY unig of the present administration to get her
tr.aga appointed in the regular army. She enlisted
r.e I'D polished assistant secretaries in her service,
a1 Is ought have very succeeding IN her
strr for tile appointment. Failing, however, IN this,
Emo ld ret a presidential permit for bringing out two
tuarad bales Of cotton from which, with reasonable
na I she NAV have made something handsome before
ETH VIE made restrictions were removed.
wHet4ripce flor he really bears the title in his own
country asnearv buried under debts of one kind and
.a.1c- before he left Prussia He has risen here to
yreveI hrgaCer general and is now, believe, com
man3aag Of the post at Atlanta.
WASH ngton was place of refuge to the whole class
of foreign officers who left the armies Of their own
uur IS to escape debts or because being born adven-
5u5 hey could not resist the gpsey desire to wander
~ sambling tendency to stake their fortunes on
aaar ST. ords in market to the highest bidder None
af them wese lacking in assurance and, in the confu
aa. t4at marked the outbreak Of the war, assurance
west Ereat ways. One man, for instance, gained en-
the best society," and was everywhere treatet
wr4 consideration as representative Of noble anC
historical English family. lie turned out to be the sol
9I Il German sraelite, who had served a term in The
5 His native country and then enlisted under the
banner Of Garbald
fe gs an excellent officer but whether Justly or IN
issg he enemy thought he could be bribed to surren
RS command, and actually sent him part Of the
money, which, however, fell into the hands o.
'uent This evidence that he had
e. areaanced such expectations on the part of the
aa any, Or indeed that lac knew Of them; but the gov
.raeu was afraid trust him, and he afterwards
reH any place of responsibility though he was for
long time retained ca half pay.
Another, a Young man from Of the northern
provinces Of Germany thought at the outbreak Of tht
at BE would ret a second lieutenancy in the regu
Iar army. "A relative of HIS native OF cor rather
ouE dent I'M Russia, had been teacher Of language
a some Of the best families in Washington, and wa
a.'e procure for the young man the recommendation
u# sCHH well known names Armed with these he wen
ITO ae PRESIDENT told him he thought the Germans ha
arnaared him 50 nobly that they were entitled to SOM
ra-g 4niion but that yet they had received meme
Emp. L8ucod told him to leave his papers, few day
afterwards to his utter establishment, he receive,
commission MS captain in the regular service! beley
asa aGerwards did good service.
gaB. Fox tells ludicrous story Of a fellow who az
:a8 the navy department early III 1861 for position
Fia presented himself as Deng an admiral in tn
Turkish navy, and for tire deceived almost everybod
Ee.Ht3g less than coinmodore's command would sui
Ljm the captain suspicious and preferred to il
yc5aghte. The man going far towards making on
aaaseot persecution against the navy department whc
some acky accident disclosed the facts of his
5ua showed him to have ornamented European chair
gang
SIa. are a few of the anomalies which our dealing
with e5siOns from the foreign services have shown u