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4 unusual facts about Franz Sigel


Claiborne Fox Jackson

At Carthage on July 5, Jackson himself took command of 6,000 State Guardsmen (becoming the only sitting U.S. Governor to lead troops in battle), and drove back a much smaller Union detachment led by Colonel Franz Sigel.

Henry Lee Morey

Morey then enlisted in the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a term of three years, and served under Generals Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, John Pope and Edward Hatch in Florida and Quincy A. Gillmore at the siege of Charleston.

Julian Edward Wood

At New Market, Virginia on May 14, 1864, a rainy Sunday afternoon, a corps of 247 teenage V.M.I. cadets, with no battle experience, held a sector of Confederate front lines against an assault by seasoned Federal troops headed by Major General Franz Sigel.

Sigel, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

The town was founded on January 3, 1863, presumably named after Franz Sigel, a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


David Hunter

In the Valley Campaigns of 1864, Union Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel was ordered by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to move into the Shenandoah Valley, threaten railroads and the agricultural economy there, and distract Robert E. Lee while Grant fought him in eastern Virginia.

James A. Mulligan

On July 3, 1864, only three weeks before his death, Colonel Mulligan distinguished himself in the Battle of Leetown, fought in and around Leetown, Virginia between Union Major General Franz Sigel and Confederate Major General Jubal Early.


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