. Hungarians in the American civil war . h letters of in-troduction, among which was one from Kossuthto Secretary Seward. He did not think much ofthe volunteers, and declined the colonelcy of aregiment of dragoons on that account. All hiscompatriots belonged to the volunteer force; buthe was commissioned colonel in the regular army,and was ordered to report to Gen. Fremont atWheeling, who made him inspector-general. La-ter he became inspector-of-outposts to his coun-tryman and friend, Gen. Stahel. He did also a few Hungarian hussar stunts dur-ing the war, as when he with only fifteen menbrilli
. Hungarians in the American civil war . h letters of in-troduction, among which was one from Kossuthto Secretary Seward. He did not think much ofthe volunteers, and declined the colonelcy of aregiment of dragoons on that account. All hiscompatriots belonged to the volunteer force; buthe was commissioned colonel in the regular army,and was ordered to report to Gen. Fremont atWheeling, who made him inspector-general. La-ter he became inspector-of-outposts to his coun-tryman and friend, Gen. Stahel. He did also a few Hungarian hussar stunts dur-ing the war, as when he with only fifteen menbrilliantly charged and put to flight a body of 25 The History of Hungary and the Magyars. By Edwin Law-rence Godkin, New York, 1853. 8-vo., 380 pp. A reprint of the Eng-lish edition. -46- cavalry commanded by Ashby in person-^But he sultered a double hernia in an accident,which troubled him a great deal and hamperedhim in his movements for some time. After the war, he was rewarded with a consul-ship, and he chose Demerara, in British Guiana,. riilllp IiKyelmeNsy. Colonel, U. S. A. which post he kept under various administrationsfrom 1865 to 1888. One of his consular reportson the evils of coolie labor attracted wide atten-tion in Great Britain, and the agitation which fol-lowed it, did much toward the amelioration ofthe condition of the coolies. In his last years helived in Philadelphia, and longed to see his nativeland once more; but, true to his word, he would 26 Rebellion Record. Series I, V. 21, June 1, 1 862. — 47 — not set foot on her soil unless she was died in 1907 at the age of eighty-five-. Among his friends was Emeric Szabad, whohad been a government official during the Hungar-ian War, fled to England, served in FigyelmessysHungarian squadron in Sicily, and came to Amer-ica early in 1862\ Here he got a commissionas captain, and was made inspector of outpoststo (ien. Sickles, whom he had known in had the ill-luck to be captured and put intothat
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