Red-48.

This is coolbert:

Me fights mit Willich.

From the Professor Al Nofi Strategy Page CIC entry # 77.

"BioFile - August von Willich, 'Reddest of the Red ‘48ers''"

"A Prussian aristocrat, August von Willich was probably the only communist general in the history of United States Army, and certainly the only general who was a personal acquaintance of Karl Marx. One of the host of immigrant volunteers who fought in the Civil War, he was the to serve the Union cause."

DEVOTED READERS TO THE BLOG WILL WANT TO READ THE ENTIRE AL NOFI ARTICLE.

Willich a distinguished Union soldier of the American Civil War. Commanded regiments of German immigrants serving with the Federal army. Regiments composed of native German speakers for which the language spoken intra-regiment would have been GERMAN and not ENGLISH.

These were German nationals referred to as the "Forty-Eighters". Exiles who had fought on the "Red" side during the various European 1848 uprisings/revolts/upheavals. Seeking refuge in the United States and finding same. Quite willing to put their bodies once more into the fray in what they believed to be a just war..

See my previous post [with additional embedded links] that topic the German national fighting for the Union cause during the American Civil War:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/franz-sigel.html

Additionally:

"My thought has always been that those distinct German-speaking units of the Union army as commanded by officers also native German speakers, commanders and enlisted both having trained in the German tradition would have shown some marked fighting capacity on the battlefields of the American Civil War better than average. THIS HOWEVER DOES NOT SEEM TO BE THE CASE! Good yes, but nothing more than that."

coolbert.