SIGEL, FRANZ (1824-1902), German and American sol dier, was born at Sinsheim, in Baden, on Nov. 18, 1824. He grad uated at the military school at Carlsruhe, and became an officer in the grand ducal service. When the Baden insurrection broke out, Sigel was a leader on the revolutionary side in the brief cam paign of 1848 and again in 1849, and then took refuge in Switz erland. A political exile, he emigrated in 1852 to the United States, working in turn as journalist and schoolmaster, and both at New York and St. Louis, whither he removed in 1858, he conducted military journals. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Sigel was active in raising and training Federal volunteer corps. He became a brigadier-general (U.S. Volunteers), and was with Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's creek and with J. C. Fremont in the advance on Springfield in the autumn. In 1862 he took a conspic uous part in the desperately fought battle of Pea ridge, which def initely secured Missouri for the Federals. Promoted to be major
general of volunteers he was ordered to Virginia, and was soon placed in command of a corps of Pope's "Army of Virginia." In this capacity he took part in the unsuccessful second Bull Run campaign. In 1864 he was placed in command of the corps in the Shenandoah valley, but was defeated by Gen. John C. Breck inridge at Newmarket (May 15), and was superseded. He re signed his commission in May 1865, and became editor of a Ger man journal in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1867 he removed to New York city where he later served as collector of internal revenue and as pension agent. His last years were devoted to the editorship of the New York Monthly, a German-American periodical. He died in New York city on Aug. 21, 1902. A monument (by Karl Bitter) in his honour was unveiled in Riverside drive, New York city, in 1907.