Massow, Baron Von.

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Massow, Baron Von.—Member of Mosby’s Men on the Confederate side during Civil War. According to a statement of Gen. John S.Mosby, Baron von Massow joined his command on coming to this country from Prussia, where he was attached to the general staff; was severely wounded in an engagement with a California regiment in Fairfax County near Washington, D.C., on which occasion he displayed conspicuous gallantry. He was then discharged and returned to Germany, serving later in the Austro-Prussian and the Franco-Prussian wars. The last that Col.Mosby heard of him was that he was commanding the Ninth Corps in the German army. (From a statement of Gen.Mosby, Feb.12,1901.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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