Schurz, Carl

was born in 1829 at Cologne, in Pru ia. He took part in the revolutionary movements of 1849, escaped from Germany, and eventually settled in the United States. He soon attracted attention as an able political orator; President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Spain in 1861, but he resigned and entered the army. He commanded a division at the second battle of Bull Run and at Chancellorsville, and had charge of a corps at Gettysburg. After the war he was a journalist. In 1869-1875 he was Republican U. S. Senator from Mi ouri. He was active in the Liberal Republican movement of 1872. He was Secretary of the Interior in President Hayes’ Cabinet 1877-1881; editor of the New York Evening Post 1881-1884,, and has since been engaged in busine .