Albin Francisco Schoepf

Birth Date

1822-03-01

Death Date

1886-05-10

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Washington, D.C, soldier. Native of Poland. Married to Julia Kesley Schoepf. Father of Lillie Schoepf, Albin F. Schoepf, Joseph Schoepf, and William Schoepf. Patent office clerk in Washington, D.C, in 1860. Served in the United States Army as a brigadier general from September 30, 1861 to January 15, 1866. Commander of Fort Delaware from April 25, 1863, to January 1, 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, D.C., Ward 3, p. 813.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Ward 5, p. 81B.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 865.
Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 424-25.
W. Emerson Wilson, Fort Delaware (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1957), 14.
"Albin Francisco Schoepf (1822-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 4908, accessed March 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4908.

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