Approved Pension File for Brigadier General August Willich, U.S. Army Volunteers; 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment (Major); and 32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment (Colonel) (SC-77658)

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Approved Pension File for Brigadier General August Willich, U.S. Army Volunteers; 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment (Major); and 32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment (Colonel) (SC-77658)

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Willich, August, 1810-1878

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Willich was born in Braunsberg, Province of East Prussia. His father, a captain of hussars during the Napoleonic Wars, died when Willich was three years old. With an elder brother, Willich found a home in the family of Friedrich Schleiermacher, a theologian, whose wife was a distant relative. He received a military education at Potsdam and Berlin. Initially an officer in the Prussian Army, serving in the 7th (1st Westphalian) Field Artillery Regiment, he resigned from the army in 1846 as a convi...