Max Weber (general)

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Max Weber
Union Army general Max Weber.png
Born(1824-08-27)August 27, 1824
Achern, Baden
DiedJune 15, 1901(1901-06-15) (aged 76)
Brooklyn, New York
Place of burial
The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Allegiance United States of America
Union
Service / branch United States Army
Union Army
Years of service1861–1865
Rank Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg Brigadier General
Battles / wars American Civil War
Signature Signature of Union Army general Max Weber.png

Max Weber (August 27, 1824 – June 15, 1901) was a military officer in the armies of Germany and later the United States, most known for serving as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Biography

Born in Achern, in the German state of Baden, Weber graduated from the military school at Karlsruhe in 1843, and served as an infantry lieutenant in the Grand Duke's army. In 1849, during the Revolutions of 1848, he served with the revolutionaries under Franz Sigel. He emigrated to America, one of a large group of political refugees who came to be as known as the Forty-Eighters. [1] He settled in New York City and worked as proprietor of the Konstanz Hotel in New York. [2]

Weber enlisted to fight in the Civil War as a colonel on May 16, 1861. [1] He raised a German-American unit known as the "Turner Rifles," a company that eventually became a part of the 20th New York Infantry. [3] Weber was stationed at Fort Monroe in Virginia. He took part in the capture of Fort Hatteras. From September 1861 until May 1862, he commanded Camp Hamilton, near Fort Monroe, being commissioned brigadier general of volunteers on April 28, 1862. He was at Newport News during the fight between the Monitor and Virginia in anticipation of a Confederate attack by land. He took part in the capture of Norfolk, Virginia in May, and then commanded at Suffolk until September, when he was ordered to the Army of the Potomac where he commanded the Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac.

Weber's brigade was the first to attack the Sunken Road during the Battle of Antietam. His right arm was grievously wounded [1] in the ill-fated attack on the Confederate positions. The injury forced Weber off to a series of desk assignments for the duration of the conflict. He served on administrative duty in Washington, D.C., in 1863. [3] He served under Gen. David Hunter and Gen. Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. He was the garrison commander of Harpers Ferry and repelled Jubal A. Early's July 4–7 raid. [1]

Weber resigned his commission on May 13, 1865. After the war, he was assessor of internal revenue in New York in 1870-72, and then collector until April 1883, when he resigned. [1] Weber served as U.S. consul in Nantes, France. [2]

He died at his home in Brooklyn on June 15, 1901. [4]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). "Weber, Max"  . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . New York: D. Appleton.
  2. 1 2 Eicher p.558
  3. 1 2 Antietam on the Web
  4. "Gen. Max Weber". The Richmond Item . New York. June 17, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved August 15, 2020 via Newspapers.com.

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