Homassel family of Virginia notes [manuscript], [1946?].

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Homassel family of Virginia notes [manuscript], [1946?].

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The collection consists of one page of notes on the family by Nancy (Nannie B. Gordon and four pages of notes by W. Edwin Hemphill on the autobiography of Mrs. Caroline Homassel Thornton which appeared in the ACHS Papers, vols. V and VI and includes a Civil War incident involving General Franz Sigel.

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Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

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Sigel was born in Sinsheim, Baden (Germany), and attended the gymnasium in Bruchsal. He graduated from Karlsruhe Military Academy in 1843, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Baden Army. He met the revolutionaries Friedrich Hecker and Gustav von Struve and became associated with the revolutionary movement. He was wounded in a duel in 1847. The same year, he retired from the army to begin law school studies in Heidelberg. After organizing a revolutionary free corps in Mannheim and later i...

Hemphill, William Edwin, 1912-

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Editor of the "Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society." From the description of Papers of William Edwin Hemphill [manuscript], 1836-1949 (bulk 1946-949). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806840 ...

Gordon, Nancy, 1955-

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Homassel family.

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