Adolphe von Steinwehr

     GEN. BARON VON STEINWEHR.
 Gen. A. Von Steinwehr, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, died suddenly at the Tott House,
Buffalo, yesterday afternoon. He was on his
way to this City, where his son resides.
Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich Baron Von
Steinwehr was born at Blankensburg, in the Duchy
of Brunswick, Sept. 22, 1822. He was educated at
the Military Academy of the City of Brunswick, and
entered the Army of the Duchy as Lieutenant
in 1841. In 1847 he resigned and came to the
United States for the purpose of offering his
services to the Government in the Mex-
ican war, but, failing to obtain a commission
in the Regular Army, he returned to Germany, after
marrying a lady of Mobile. In 1854 he returned to
this country and purchased a farm near Wal-
lingford, Conn. At the commencement of the
civil war he raised a regiment, the Twenty-ninth
New-York Volunteers, which he commanded at the
first battle of Bull Run, forming part of the re-
serve under Gen. Miles. On Oct. 12, 1861,
he was commissioned a Brigadier General and ap-
pointed to the command of the Second Brigade
of Blenker's Division, which in May, 1862, was
attached to the Mountain Department, under Gen.
Fremont. When Sigel assumed command of the
corps, after the organization of Pope's campaign,
Gen. Steinwehr was promoted to the head of the 
Second Division, and participated in the campaign
on the Rapidan and Rappahannock. He was one
of the officers especially mentioned by Gen. Lee in
the note to Gen. Halleck threatening retailiation for
certain orders issued by Gen. Pope and certain acts
committed by some of his subordinates. At the
battle of Chancellorsville he commanded a division
in Gen. Howard's Eleventh Corps. Gen. Von Stein-
wehr served with distinction till the close of the
war.