... remembered by his comrades as a faithful soldier of the Confederacy, who carried the colors of Bachman's battery through the storm of battle, from the beginning to the end of the war. He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany , in 1840, to parents of German birth who were naturalized American citizens and were traveling in Germany at that time. From 1849 he was reared at Charleston, and educated, finding employment in yo...