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August Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 Confederate Commanders Civil War 1861-1865August Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 the Prussian forty eighter turned Union officer, photographed at the rank he earned through the smoke of Stones River and Liberty Gap. A portrait of the immigrant radical in shoulder straps, fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional