Max Weber

Max Weber (August 27, 1824 – June 15, 1901) was a military officer in the armies of the Grand Duchy of Baden in Germany and later the United States, most known for serving as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography Born in Achern, in the German state of Baden, Weber graduated from the military school at Karlsruhe in 1843, and served as an infantry lieutenant in the Grand Duke's army. In 1849, during the Revolutions of 1848, he served with the revolutionaries under Franz Sigel. He emigrated to America, one of a large group of political refugees who came to be as known as the Forty-Eighters. He settled in New York City and worked as proprietor of the Konstanz Hotel in New York.

Weber enlisted to fight in the Civil War as a colonel on May 16, 1861. Weber was stationed at Fort Monroe in Virginia. He took part in the capture of Fort Hatteras. From September 1861 until May 1862, he commanded Camp Hamilton, near Fort Monroe, being commissioned brigadier general of volunteers on April 28, 1862. He was at Newport News during the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack in anticipation of a Confederate attack by land. He took part in the capture of Norfolk, Virginia in May, and then commanded at Suffolk until September, when he was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, where he commanded the Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps.

Weber's brigade was the first to attack the Sunken Road during the Battle of Antietam. His right arm was grievously wounded