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Asboth was born in Hungary.

Never heard of him, but as usual, I now know about him.

Born in Kezthely in the county of Zala, Hungary, December 18, 1811. He graduated from the academy at Selmecbanya and, after receiving government appointment as an engineer, worked in various parts of Hungary. During the Hungarian Revolt of 1848 against temporal power of Austria, he associated himself with Lajos Kossuth and followed him into exile in the United States in 1851.

By 1861 he had become a citizen and offered his services to the Union when the Civil War broke out. John C. Fremont, who had known him in New York, applied for his services, appointed him a Brigadier General of Volunteers and his chief-of-staff. However, the appointment was not recognized in Washington, and lapsed until he was duly appointed on March 21, 1862. During the same month he was wounded while in command of a Division at Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern).
 
Born in Kezthely in the county of Zala, Hungary, December 18, 1811, Asboth graduated from the academy at Selmecbanya and, after receiving government appointment as an engineer, worked in various parts of Hungary. During the Hungarian Revolt of 1848 against temporal power of Austria, he associated himself with Lajos Kossuth and followed him into exile in the United States in 1851.

By 1861 he had become a citizen and offered his services to the Union when the Civil War broke out. John C. Fremont, who had known him in New York, applied for his services, appointed him a Brigadier General of Volunteers and his chief-of-staff. However, the appointment was not recognized in Washington, and lapsed until he was duly appointed on March 21, 1862. During the same month he was wounded while in command of a Division at Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern).

The following year he was in command at Columbus, Kentucky, and later the District of West Florida. In 1864, at the Battle of Marianna, he was badly wounded in the left cheek bone and left arm.

In 1866, he was appointed U.S. Minister to Argentina and Uruguay. By this time he had been accorded the brevet rank of Major General of Volunteers for his gallant and faithful service during the Civil War. The wound in his cheek failed to heal, and on January 21, 1868, he died at Buenos Aires, Argentina, probably of malignancy. He was first buried in the British Cemetery in Victoria Park. In 1923, Victoria District became a park and the cemetery was moved to the Chacarita District.

He came home on October 23, 1990 to full military honors. His remains had recently been exhumed in Argentina after a campaign by Hungarian Americans, who regard him as a hero, and who wished to honor his last request to be buried in Arlington. His great-great-grandnephew, Sandor Asboth, a 22-year-old member of the Virginia National Guard, attended the funeral services and received the folded U.S. flag that had draped the coffin. General Asboth was accorded a caisson drawn by horses, the playing of Taps and a riderless horse, the symbol of a fallen military leader. The date of the burial coincided with the Hungarian uprising of october 23, 1956, which was crushed by Rusian Troops. He lies today in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/asasboth.htm
 
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Asboth was born in Keszthely, Hungary.[1] When Asboth was 8, his family moved to Zombor (now Sombor in Serbia). Asboth wanted to be a soldier, like his elder brother Lajos, but instead his parents decided he should be an engineer. He studied at the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya and the Institutum Geometricum in Pest.[2]

He then trained at the Hungarian military academy. In 1836, Asboth enlisted to the newly formed Hungarian Army.[2] He worked as both a soldier and an engineer for the army. He joined with freedom-fighter Lajos Kossuth in the 1848 revolutionary movement.[2] In December 1848 he was promoted to captain.[1] During his time as captain, he took part in the battles of Kápolna and Nagysalló. Asboth traveled with Kossuth to the Ottoman Empire and then to the United States in 1851, after the revolution failed.[3]
 
Hungary.

One of Fremont's toadies. As Snooks reported he was:

....a tall, thin creature with a huge grey moustache and a fierce look between his feathers and gold braid (who) turned to me and opened his mouth.


“You there,” shouts he. “You enlisted man. Why do you want tents? Is no need for tents. In Hungary we make a winter campaign and we sleep without tents, our feet to the fire—and sometimes our ears did freeze. But you want always the tents. Pah!”

Having delivered this thoroughly martial opinion he turned back to his popinjay friends who seemed to be of the view that it was high time for dinner. Opposite me sat the tent-man who was introduced by Bush as one Asboth and next him a likely looking chap named Zagonyi—the rest seemed to be Italians. It’s a theory of mine that no place beginning with the letter “I” produces anything of use—I offer Ireland, Iceland and Inverness as further evidence
 
Born in Kezthely in the county of Zala, Hungary, December 18, 1811. He graduated from the academy at Selmecbanya and, after receiving government appointment as an engineer, worked in various parts of Hungary. During the Hungarian Revolt of 1848 against temporal power of Austria, he associated himself with Lajos Kossuth and followed him into exile in the United States in 1851.
Source: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/asasboth.htm
 
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