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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sighting at a long range. (search)
[from the Columbia (S. C.) Guardian.]General G. Tochman. Columbia,S. C., Sept. 21, 1861.
Much attention and curiosity are at present excited by the unexpected resignation of General Tochman, the commander of the "Polish Brigade." Being somewhat acquainted with the facts, and desirous of contradicting some misrepresentations which we have had occasion to remark, we beg leave to submit them to your readers, premising with a sketch of General Tochman's biography.
Gen. Tochman is the nephew of the far famed General-in-Chief of the Polish army, John Skrzyneck, who in 1830-31 caused the Russian throne to totter to its very foundation.
He was Major in the Polish infantry during the revolution of 1830 and 1831, and won for himself by repeated and distinguished bravery the cross of the Polish Legion of Honor--" Virtute Miltari." When that revolution failed, he, with thousands of his compatriots, sought an asylum in France, where his countrymen gave him another proof of their tru