Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Over Forty-six Thousand Articles (authors), with Forty Indexes of Subjects
Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1852. An early supporter of Lincoln, he became a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war he was elected U.S. senator from Missouri, then was Secretar