Schoepf.

 

This is coolbert:

The moment I saw the names of the opposing battlefield commanders I knew here was gist for a blog entry. And I was correct.

Headlines from the era of the American Civil War. As from the front page of The New York Times as dated 21 January 1862.

Thanks to the tip from Freeper.

* "THE SCENE OF THE GREAT VICTORY IN KENTUCKY.   JANUARY 21, 1861."

* "GLORIOUS NEWS."

* "A great National victory in Kentucky."

* "Zollicoffger's Army Twice Defeated and Routed."

* "DEATH OF ZOLLICOFFER."

* "Attack on Gen. Schoepf at Somerset."

* "A Battle lasting from Daylight until 3 o'clock P.M."

* "The Rebels Utterly Routed and Driven Back to Their Intrenchments."

* "Combined Attack upon Them by General Schoepf and Thomas."

* "THE ROUT RENDERED COMPLETE."

* "Capture of All the Rebel Cannon. Quartermaster's Stores, Tents, & c."

* "The National Flag Flying Over 'Zollicoffer's Den.'"

Those opposing battlefield commanders the American Civil War hardly having names not normally associated with the traditional Anglo-Saxon settlers of the United States.

Schoepf and Zollicoffger!

At least in the case of Schoepf the continuing saga of the Forty-Eighter. European immigrants to the USA having left Europe for good in the aftermath of the Revolutions [failed] of 1848.

Forty-Eighters many of them Germans and many with prior military experience and training in the European model. Many also adherents to the tenets of socialism and some [?] perhaps also favorably disposed to the theories of Marx.

Schoepf a career military man the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Contributing his skills to the Union side in the American Civil War. I might his abilities highly regarded. A man too feeling indebted to his new homeland and not shirking what he would have perceived as his duty and honor!

Indeed, during that period of the American Civil war entire regiments of native German speakers fought on the Union side. Intra-regimental communication strictly [?] in German.

As I have stated before the entire subject of distinct German-speaking regiments consisting of naturalized German-Americans serving during the American Civil War might make for an interesting PhD dissertation if one has not already been done.

See previous blog entries as relevant:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-48.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/04/no-draft.html

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

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/05/pea-ridge.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/05/302.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/07/deutsch.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/11/forty-eighters.html

coolbert.