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Willich, August

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Found inAugust Willich's gallant Dutchmen: CIP t.p. (August Willich) galley (Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War)
Wikipedia, viewed on February 10, 2020: (August Willich; b. November 19, 1810; d. January 22, 1878 (buried in St. Marys, Ohio); full name: Johann August Ernst von Willich; was a military officer in the Prussian Army and a leading early proponent of communism in Germany; in 1847 he discarded his title of nobility; he later emigrated to the United States and eventually became a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War; he served in the 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment; and, 32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment, Horn Brigade, (an all-German regiment))