I GOES TO FIGHT MIT SIGEL.  In the early days of the Southern Rebellion, Franz Sigel, an acht-und-vierziger, with some experience as a military commander in the German Revolution, achieved some success in southwestern Missouri.  It was on the strength of these early victories that his name figured in a Deutschglish send-up of The Girl I Left Behind Me.

History notes that an obscure Illinois colonel who subsequently established a reputation in southeastern Missouri and western Tennessee ultimately became general in command of all Federal forces, in which position he had reason to be disappointed with the efforts of Gen^l Sigel, by then in command of forces in the Shenandoah Valley that were less than effective at giving dem Rebel vellers fits.