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December 26, 2012
Alexander Asboth was one of more than one hundred Hungarians who served as officers in the American Civil War. Asboth immigrated to the United States after his participation in the failed Hungarian Revolution in 1848. During the American Civil War, he rose to the rank of brigadier general, participating in a number of battles, including the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas.