SCHIMMELFENNIG, Alexander

Affiliation:  Union

Born: July 20 1824, Lithauen, Prussia

Died: September 5 1865, nr Wernersville PA

Pre-War Profession: Officer in Prussian army, emigrated to US 1853, writer, engineer, and draftsman.

War Service: September 1861 Col. of 74th Pennsylvania, commanded 1st Bde/3rd Divn/I Corps at Second Bull Run, November 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 1st Bde/3rd Divn/IX Corps at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (w), served in South Carolina, Charleston.

Post War: US congressman, minister to Great Britain, lawyer, author