Alexander Schimmelfennig
Born: July 20, 1824
Birthplace: Bromberg, Prussia
Father: Johann Heinrick Samel Schimmelfennig
Mother: Helene Rosalie Von Knocke
Wife: Sophie Schimmelfennig 1826 – 1890
(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)
Children:
Bertha M. Schimmelfennig 1850 – 1925
(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)
Agnes S. Schimmelfennig 1854 – 1855
(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)
Hermann A. Schimmelfennig 1860 – 1887
(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)
Occupation before War:
Served in the Prussian Army
Member of Palatine Military Commission
1849: Wounded twice at Battle of Rinnthal
Lived in Exile in Switzerland
Sentenced to death for his involvement in Revolution
Member of German Democratic Movement
1854: Immigrated to the United States of America
Employee of United States Government War Department
Associated with the Forty – Eighters
1854: Author of The War between Russia and Turkey
Civil War Career:
1861: Attempted to raise an all German Regiment in Philadelphia
Colonel of 74th Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry Regiment
Brigadier General in the Union Army Volunteers Infantry
1863: Brigade Commander during Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863: Hid during the Battle of Gettysburg on Baltimore Street then a shed on the property of Henry and Catherine Garlach
1863: Served in the Union Army District of Department of the South
1864: Union Army Commander of the District of Charleston, South Carolina
1865: Accepted Charleston, South Carolina's Surrender on February 18
Died: September 5, 1865
Place of Death: Wernersville, Pennsylvania
Age at time of Death: 41 years old
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis and Malaria
Burial Place: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania
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