Julius Stahel

   GEN. JULIUS H. STAHEL
      DEAD IN 88TH YEAR
Gallant Old Fighter for Many
  Years a Familiar Figure in
    Hoffman House Lobby.
  NOTABLE CIVIL WAR RECORD
Ranked Next to Gen. Sickles as Senior
  Corps Commander--Splendid
       Work in Japan.
 Major Gen. Julius H. Stahel, who for
so many years was a familiar figure
about the Hoffman House, where he made
his home, died at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning at the Hotel St. James in West
Forty-fifth Street, where he had lived
for the last three or four months. The
cause of death was angina pectoris. With
Gen. Stahel, when he died, were his phy-
sician, Dr. Montgomery Sicard, and a
male trained nurse. Gen. Stahel was in
full possession of his faculties to the
last, though the end had been expected
for about a week. He celebrated his
eighty-seventh birthday on Nov. 5.
 The funeral services will be held in
Washington to-morrow, interment being
in the National Cemetery at Arlington.
The homorary pallbearers will be Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, George T. Wilson, Simon
Wolf, Read Admiral Adolph Marix, Isa-
dore Saks, and E.H. Droop, President
of the Washington Board of Trade.
 For a year Gen. Stahel had been in fail-
ing health, but it was not until within the
last two or three days that his condition
was regarded as serious.
 Everyone who has known the Hoff-
man House for the last twenty-five year
or more has been familiar with the ap-
pearance of the soldierly looking man,
with snow-white hair and mustache and
clear gray eyes, who was so much to be
seen in the lobby that he seemed almost
to be a part of the place. Even those
who did not know his name called him
"the General," though they did not real-
ize that the title was his by right of com-
mission and of distinguished military serv-
ice. In fact, he ranked next to Gen.
Daniel Sickles as senior corps commander
of the civil war.
 But long before he came to the United
States Gen. Stahel distinguished himself
as a soldier in his native country, Hun-
gary. He fought under Louis Kossuth
in the war for Hungarian independence
in 1848, in which he was wounded and
decorated for gallantry.
    A Newspaper Man in 1858.
 Coming to New York in 1856, Stahel
took up newspaper work, and became
one of the editors of the old New York
Illustrated News. He was still working
on that paper when in April, 1861, Presi-
dent Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers.
With the late Gen. Louis Blenker, Stahel
organized the Eighth New York Volun-
teers, and was elected Lieutenant Colonel
of the regiment. He saw service at the
first battle of Bull Run as Colonel of the
Eighth New York, Blenker having been
made commander of a brigade. Stahel's
regiment covered the retreat of the Union
Army, repelling two attacks of Confed-
erate cavalry, and for this service Col.
Stahel was personally commended by both
President Lincoln and Gen. Scott. He 
was then ordered to organize a regiment
of heavy artillery, and, this accomplished,
he was made a member of the military
board to examine the capability, effi-
ciency, and general qualifications of vol-
unteer officers. In October, 1861, he was
commissioned Brigadier General of Volun-
teers.
 As such he was with the Army of the
Potomac in the peninsula of Virginia,
serving with Rosecrans in the valley cam-
paign. In June, 1862, he and his men,
according to Gen. Fremont's report, bore
the brunt of the battle od Cross Keys, in
which 19 officers and 379 men of his
campaign were killed or wounded. In
the second battle of Bull Run he com-
manded the First Brigade of Gen.
Schenk's division, and was commended for
gallantry in action. In September of
that year he captured Warrenton, Va.,
and in November, while making a sortie
to determine the movements of Stonewall
Jackson's army, he engaged the Confed-
erates at Ashley's Gap and drove them
across the Shenandoah River to Berry-
ville, where he routed them in an engage-
ment and pursued them until they effect-
ed a junction with the main body of Jack-
son's army.
        Succeeded Gen. Sigel.
 In March, 1863, Gen. Stahel succeeded
Gen. Sigel as commander of the Eleventh 
Army Corps. Having been commissioned
Major General, he was put in command
in front of Washington. After various
other services, he was assigned to the
command of the First Cavalry Division,
near Cumberland, Md., in April, 1864, and
took part in the battle of New Market
son afterward. On June 5, near Staun-
ton, he encountered Gen. Jones's cavalry,
and drove it as far as Piedmont. There
the main body of the enemy was encoun-
tered, but Stahel held his position until
the arrival of Gen. Hunter with the main
body of the Federal Army. In this en-
gagement Stahel was severely wounded
while charging the enemy's position with
some of the dismounted cavalry. For this
gallantry Congress awarded him a medal.
Gen. Stahel resigned from the service in
February, 1865.
 In June of the following year Gen.
Stahel was made Consul at Yokohama,
and after obtaing the opening of the
Ports of Osaka and Hiogo, returned home
in 1869. In 1877 he went back as Consul
to Osaka and Hiogo, retaining that posi-
tion until 1884, when he was appointed
Consul General at Shanghai. He resigned
in October, 1885, on account of ill-health,
and came back to New York. Some time
later he entered the service of the
Equitable Assurance Society in an ex-
ecutive capacity under Henry B. Hyde,
continuing under the Presidency of James
W. Alexander.
 Gen. Stahel was a member of the Loyal
Legion, the Medal of Honor Legion, the
Army and Navy Club of New York, the
Pilgrims, and the Lincoln Fellowship.