Burial of Fanny child of General Steinwehr's Congressional Cemetery October 27 1862
Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in burials , Congressional Cemetery | Posted on January 24, 2025
Fanny was youngest child of -- Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877) was a German-Brunswick army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer, and author, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War.
Fanny died Sunday October 26th at Fairfax County Court House and must have been brought from Virginia to DC to be embalmed before being sent to Albany NY
Union soldiers in front of Court House 1862
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