August Willich

August Willich was a member of the Communist League with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels while in London.
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Willich was appointed a major general in the Union Army.

For instance, August Willich was a member of the London Communist League with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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Needless to say, Willich became a major general in the Union Army.

Cuffay, a mulatto appointed a Commissioner by the [Chartist] executive, took charge of the London area, and with six others ( ... ) reorganized the revolt for August 15» ('the Common People', Cole and Postgate, UP, p.324).
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The first two articles of its constitution, signed by Adan and J.Vidil (blanquists), G. Julian Harney (Chartists), and Marx, Engels and August Willich (Communist league), specified: «1.

The Cincinnati group, on the other hand, gathered around August Willich, a former Prussian officer, and John Bernard Stallo, an organizer of the Republican Party.
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Willich had participated in the Revolution of 1848 as a democratic partisan in south Germany, and, as an exile, had been in lively intercourse with Marx.He founded the Cincinnati Republikaner, in which he reviewed Marx's Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (1859) and endeavoured to base the principles of social democracy upon the humanistic foundations of Feuerbach.

In August, having spent my first summer in Vietnam providing security for the construction of the airfield, I participated in Operation Starlite.
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Augustus Willich, for example: "A member of the Communist League, Willich took an active part in the Revolution of 1848-1849.After the suppression of the rising he emigrated to London."Despite their inepitude as commanders, Willich and fellow-communist, Franz Sigel, rose rapidly through the ranks, Willich becoming America's first Communist general-grade officer.

The brigade's namesake, fifty-one year old August Willich, was an eccentric former Prussian officer, who had risen from private to general in little over a year.During the European uprisings of 1846 to 1849, Willich commanded a corps of revolutionaries.Defeated, Willich, a member of the Communist League, fled to London, where in 1850 he led a group who split with Marx.In 1853, Willich now out of Marx's loop and at loose ends immigrated to the United States, and at the War's outbreak edited a German language newspaper in Cincinnati.

Part of a November 29th letter from Lieutenant Wells appeared in the December 10th issue of the Rock Island Weekly Argus.He wrote the regiment had "'moved camp to-day, and are about seven or eight miles south east of Nashville.The enemy are in force only eight or nine miles off.
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Willich who commands the brigade, the other day on inspection."Ha!"said the old fellow 'dare is meeletary movements in dis companee."Our's is conceded to be the best drilled company in the regiment, and the 89th has no mean reputation."'

On December 26, 1862, Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland left the Nashville area and moved toward Murfreesboro and Bragg's Army of Tennessee.
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Willich wrote an early dispatch to the division commander, referring to the Confederate army: " . . . I guess they are all no more here."

Shortly before 6:30 a.m. scattered shots were heard from the picket line off to the right in the direction of Kirk's Brigade.Then suddenly as darkness gave way to dawn, seven Rebel brigades numbering 11,000 men in a line six deep descended on the two brigades holding the far right of the Union line.Rosecrans and Bragg both had the same plan of battle -- to attack the other's right.But on the last day of 1862, Bragg's Army of Tennessee jumped off first, catching the Federals by surprise.

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With Willich captured, brigade command passed to senior colonel, W. H. Gibson of the 49th Ohio.In his official report Gibson wrote the following about Lieutenant-Colonel Hotchkiss, which also speaks well of the men and officers of the 89th."He drew off his men in good order, fighting as he withdrew, and showed himself worthy of any command.This gallant officer has given to the service one of its best regiments, and has justly earned promotion."The 89th's losses at Stones River were 10 killed, 46 wounded, and 94 captured and missing.

On January 7, 1863, the temporary rank the 89th's field officers held became permanent.
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The editor noted, "' Capt. Wells takes no credit to himself -- says he was not in the line of battle but gives credit to all his men."' Wells' letter informed the homefolks of the praise given the 89th by Generals Johnson and Willich.
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A long time Republican, Judge E. T. Wells was on the reception committee to welcome former President U. S. Grant to Denver in August 1880.