The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1985-03-01 / 3. szám
KOSSUTH’S LEGACY TO AMERICA —b\)z-Paul Pulitzer The month of March is when Hungarians throughout the world, commemorate Louis Kossuth and the Hungarian War of Independence. It is a time when Hungaian clubs, churches, and organizations hold special programs and activities devoted to and in recollection of Hungary ’s bid for freedom in 1848. The inspiring words of Kossuth and Sándor Petofi’s immortal “Talpra Magyar” are recited and the story of the “13 Martyrs of Arad” is retold. Kossuth’s visit to America is also remembered and his triumphant tour is described. It is also recalled that America did not give him the help that he expected. This is true. It is also true that, while the United States failed to respond to his appeal for assistance, Louis Kossuth, without his realizing it perhaps, gave this country a great deal. Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian Freedom Fighter, arrived in the United States on December 4, 1851, believing that he would obtain meaningful support for his just cause. While he was warmly welcomed and hailed as a hero, he did not receive what he had hoped for. Consequently, he left on July 14, 1852, a very disappointed man. Strangely enough, however, he left something behind him that helped to keep these United States of America together as a Nation one and inseparable. For it was the “Kossuth Exiles” who sparked the Hungarian emigration to America and, it was from among the 3,000 Hungarian immigrants who arrived here by the time the Civil War broke out, that the Union Army of President Abraham Lincoln recruited experienced officers and men. Their names and deeds of valor on the battlefields will shine forever in the annals of the weir which almost ripped asunder the union of states that holds this country together. It would require several liie-times to track down and identify each Hungarian who served in the Union Army during the Civil Weir. But among those, who have been identified, there are some who actually arrived with Kossuth, some who got here before he did, and the rest arrived after Kossuth had sadly returned to Europe. Almost all of them fought in the Hungarian War of Independence and their exploits in the Union Army during the Civil War, as well as their activities and achievements in civilian life after being mustered out of the service, reads like a series of adventure thrillers. This Page 6 HUNGARIAN ROSTER OF HONOR is as follows (reference: “Lincoln’s Hungarian Heroes” by Edmund Vas vary. Published by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America in 1939). Brigadier General Albert Anzelm Major General Alexander Asboth Colonel George Amsberg Private John Bartha Private Charles Barothy Lieutenant Frederick Bauer Medical Officer Bernard Bettelheim Private Samuel Bibo Captain Constantine Blandowski Private Julius Boday Private Peter Boday Captain Victor Chandory 1st Lieutenant George N. Cormany Major Joseph Csermelyi Private Ignatz Debreczenyi Private Emery Dobozy Colonel Peter Dobozy 1st Lieutenant Charles Dolezich Captain Nicholas Dunka Major William M. Esti 1st Lieutenant Samuel Farkas Private Nicholas Fejervary, Jr. Medical Officer Alexander Fekete 1st Lieutenant Anthony Fiala Colonel John A. Fiala Inspector General Philip Figyelmessy Colonel Cornelius Fornet Sgt. Joseph Fulop Captain Alexander Gaal Lieutenant Alexander Gaal Major Andrew Galfy-Gallik Lieutenant Anthony Gerster Captain George Grechenek Lieutenant Charles Grossinger Captain Geza Haraszthy Captain Philip Hauser Major Hugo Hillebrandt Captain Charles Hochkeiter Lieutenant Alexander Jekelfalussy Lieutenant William Kapus Private Joseph Kemenyffy Private Joseph Kiss Brigadier General Frederick Knefler Colonel Gabriel Korponay Major Gustav Kovács Colonel Stephen Kovács Brigadier General Eugene Kozlay Major Julian Kune Lieutenant Henrik Lang 1st Lieutenant Francis Langenfeld Medical Officer Ignatius Langer Private Alexis Ludvigh Major Emmanuel Lulley Captain Theodore (Baron) Majthenyi Sgt. H. J. Mandy Sgt. John O. Marky Captain John Menyhárt Major Emery Mészáros Colonel Geza Mihalotzy Captain Michael Mohor Lieutenant Albert Molotor Sgt. Joseph Molnár Brigadier General Charles Mundee-Mandy Colonel Joseph Muzsik Colonel Joseph Nemeth Colonel Nicholas Perczel Private Daniel Peto Private Joseph Peto Private Michael Pipady Lt. Colonel Anthony Pokorny Private Joseph Pulitzer Brigadier General George Pomutz Sgt. Andre Rabattin Lieutenant Emery Radnich Private Stephen Radnich Colonel Raphael Rombauer Captain Roderick Rombauer Colonel Robert Rombauer Captain Roland Rombauer Major Ernest Matthias Rozsafy Major Albert Ruttkay Brigadier General Albin Schoepf Medical Officer Bernard Simig Major Charles Semsey Private Louis C. Solyom Captain Stephen Spelletich Major General Julius H. Stahel-Szamvald Colonel Emry Szabad Lt. Colonel Stephen Szendy Lieutenant Philip Szerenyi Captain Francis Takacs Medical Officer Rudolph Tauszky Lieutenant Louis Tenner Captain Alexander Toplanyi Colonel George F. Utassy Captain Anthony Utassy 1st Lieutenant Charles Utassy Colonel Joseph Vándor Major Anthony Vekey Captain John Vertesy Colonel Gustav Waagner Colonel Charles Zagonyi Lieutenant Edward Zerdahelyi Lieutenant A. P. Zimandy Lieutenant Emil Zsulavszky Lieutenant Casimer Zsulavszky Colonel Ladislaus Zsulavszky Lieutenant Sigismund Zsulavszky (Note: Some of these officers and men were killed in action and are buried in Arlington Cemetery. Major General Julius H. Stahel-Szamvald, one of Lincoln’s most favored general, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.) Enough for sorrow and regret: Enough for agony and tears! And yet—enough for Hope and Tnut, And Victory in coming years; Enough to rouse the true and brave, Wherever Freedom’s banners wave! MARCH, 1985
