The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies WhiIed
Away Life in Camp-Foraginx Ex-
periences, Tiresome Marches-Thril.
ling Scenes ON the Battlefield.


monument to be erected in ST. Louis
to Gen. Franz Sigel, and the German
American soldiers of the Civil War
and Robert Cauer of Kreuznach, Ger.
many, the sculptor, has started work
on the huge bronze and marble memo
rial
One of the contributions to the fund
to erect the monument was from Capt
Joseph Boyce, vice president of the
City Council, who, as an officer in the
Confederate army, fought against Gen,
Sigel Several other Confederate SOL
diers are also among the contributors
The monument will be the only
equestrian statute in st. Louis, and
while the site has not yet been definite
ly decided, it probably will be located
In Forest Park.
The fund was raised by the Gen
Franz Sigel Monument Association.
Judge Leo Rassieur, president. Many
contributions have been received, most
ly from German-American residents of
St Louis. The largest individual con-
tribution was for $1,000.
Many designs for the memorial were
submitted to the association before the
bronze equestrian statue designed by
Robert Cauer of Kreuznach, Germany,
was finally accepted.
The statue of Gen. Sigel slrrmounts
marble pedestal, carved on four sides
with war scenes. At the front Is a
bronze figure of a Union soldier, bear
ing the flag. On the base is inscribed
In English:
Erected
to the Memory of
GERMAN-AdERICA PATRIOTS
OF THE CIVIL WAR.
1S61-65.
! Gen. Sigel, In bronze, mounted upon
his charger, surmounts the pedestal
The figure is Of heroic size, and is attir-
ed in the regulation army uniform.
Gen. Sigel was born in Sinsheim,
Baden, in 1924 After completing his
studies in Bruschal he entered the mil
itary school ar Carlsruhe and was
graduated in 1884.
When the Baden revolution began in
1S4S he raised a corps of volunteers
and organized the Lake district at
Constance. He led body of more than
1000 volunteers against Frieburg and
was defeated in two encounters with
the royal troops
He escaped across the French border
vii nj \;
zerland. The instruction of May, 1S49
recalled him to Baden.
He was made commander of the
Lake and Upper Rhine district, and
placed in charge of the army of the
Neckar. He met the royal forces at
Hoppenheim, May 80, when he was
made minister of war and chief COM
mander of the troops.
He fought in several battles under
Gen. Louis Meiroslawski, whom he
succeeded. He conducted the army Of
$4,000 men in retreat through three
hostile army corps, and crossed the
Rhine with the remnant Of the army
| into Switzerland.
While residing at Lugano he was ar
rested by the federal authorities in the
spring of 1851 and delivered to the
French police, who conducted him
to Havre with the intention Of placing
him on a ship bound for the United
States.
He escaped, however, and went to
England, living in London until May,
1852, when he departed for the United
States.
He first settled In New York and
taught school in the academy conduct
ed by Rudolph Dulan. A short time
after he was married to a daughter of
Dulan and started a military maya
| zine, die Revue" which he conducted
until 1858, when he was called to st
Louis as a teacher of mathematics and
history in the German institute.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he
organized regiment Of infantry and
q battery, which was at once stationed
at the arsenal and later at Camp Jack
son.
He was ordered in June, 1861. with
his regiment and two batteries to
Rolla, Mo. From Rolla he marched to
Neosho and compelled the retreat of
Gen. Sterling Price into Arkansas. He
took part in the fight at Dug Springs
and after the battle at Wilson's Creek
conducted the retreat of the army from
Springfield toward Rolla
He was commissioned brigadier gen.
eral May IL, 1861, and in the autumn
campaign Of Gen. John c. Fremont he
commanded the advance guard. When
'the Confederates compelled the retreat
from Springfield he commanded the
rear guard. consisting of two divisions
He took command Of the right wing
of the troops assembled under Gen
Samuel R. Curtis at Rolla, and con-
Quoted the final assault at the battle
of Pea Ridge.
For this victory he was made ma
jor general, his commission dated from
March 81, 1862, and was ordered to
the East, where he was placed in COM
mand of the forces at Harper's Ferry
He co-operated In the movement
against Gen. Thomas j. Jackson at
winchester, and when Gen. John Pope
was placed in command of the newly
created army of Virginia he was given
command of the First corps This corps