Hubert Dilger
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Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger. German American who became a decorated artillerist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was noted as one of the finest artillerists in the Army of the Potom
Hubert Dilger CDV by Frederics c 1860s
Battery I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Chattanooga, Tenn November 1863
Captain Hubert Dilger at Resaca, Georgia, May 1864 by Adolph G. Metzner
XI Corps (Union army)
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The XI Corps was a corps of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, best remembered for its involvement in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in 1863. The corps was composed primarily
Hubert Dilger
…fellow German native Major General Carl Schurz at the Second Battle of Bull Run. On May 2, 1863, Dilger fought in the rearguard of the retreating Union XI Corps during the disastrous Battle of Chancellorsville, for which he eventually was awarded the nation's highest decoration in 1893. He unlimbered his battery…
Marker and recreated winter hut at the site of the XI Corps winter encampment in Stafford Civil War Park, Virginia, February 2024.