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- Jul 30, 2016
- Location
- berlin
- battle of wilson's creek aka battle of oak hills
- brigadier general franz sigel - the question specifically asks for his rank. to me that is the rank he held when he wrote that report. the battle took place on aug 10th. sigel was promoted to brigadier on aug 7th which means he was most likely not yet informed about that promotion (the fact that he talks about himself caesarian style in the third person as colonel sigel seems to prove that). my source calls him major general sigel a rank he attained the following year.
- when brigadier general nathaniel lyon was killed then major samuel davis sturgis took over command. when later in the day brigadier sigel got in charge his immediate predecessor major sturgis was still alive. the army in question was the army of the west but the answer is none.
... nice traps, andrea
Edit - See next post.
hoosier
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