Albin Francisco Schoepf
| Albin Francisco Schoepf | |
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Albin F. Schoepf
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| Born |
March 1, 1822 Podgórze, Poland |
| Died | May 10, 1886 (aged 64) Washington, D.C. |
| Place of burial | Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |
| Allegiance |
 Austrian Empire Ottoman Empire United States of America
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| Service/branch |
Austrian Army Ottoman Army Union Army
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| Years of service | 1841–1849 (Austria) 1849–1851 (Ottoman Empire) 1861–1866 (USA) |
| Rank |
Major (Austria) Major (Ottoman Empire)  Brigadier General (USA) |
| Battles/wars | |
Albin Francisco Schoepf (Polish: Albin Franciszek Schoepf; March 1, 1822 – May 10, 1886) was a European-born military officer who became a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War, best known as the commanding officer of Fort Delaware, a wartime camp for Confederate prisoners of war.
Schoepf was born in Podgórze, Poland, which was then part of the Austrian kingdom of Galicia. He entered the Vienna Military Academy in 1837, became a lieutenant of artillery in 1841, and served in Hungary as a captain in the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution in 1848, he resigned his commission and enlisted as a private in the Hungarian Revolutionary Army under Lajos Kossuth. He was soon promoted to major. When Kossuth abdicated in 1849, Schoepf was exiled to Turkey, where he served under Gen. Jozef Bem against the insurgents at Aleppo, and afterward became instructor of artillery in the Ottoman Empire's army with the rank of major.
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