Joseph Gerhardt
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Joseph P. Gerhardt was a German American restaurant and bar owner who became a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was breveted a brigadier general in 1863 for gallantry in the
Grave of Joseph Gerhardt at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
The First Battle of Rappahannock Station, as took place on August 23, 1862, at present-day Remington, Virginia, as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.
Joseph Gerhardt
…Virginia, in July 1862, where it was assigned to the newly formed IX Corps. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 1, 1861. He fought at the First Battle of Rappahannock Station on August 22 to August 25, 1862, in Culpeper County and Fauquier County, Virginia, and the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 28 to 30, 1862, in Prince…
Union pickets at Rappahannock Station, Virginia photographed here in August 1862 will be driven away by Confederates under James Longstreet
Union troops crossing the Rappahannock near Sulphur Springs
Union forces retreat from Rappahannock Station