Albin Francisco Schoepf (1 March 1822-10 May 1886) was a Brigadier-General of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Albin Franciszek Schoepf was born in Podgorze, Austrian Poland in 1822, and he served as an artilleryman in the Austrian military before joining Lajos Kossuth's Hungarian revolutionary army in 1848. He was exiled to Ottoman Turkey on the revolution's failure in 1849, and he served under Jozef Bem in Syria before emigrating to the United States in 1851. Schoepf became a Coastal Survey clerk and served under Republican politician Joseph Holt in the Patent Office and War Department. He was made a Brigadier-General at the start of the American Civil War and led a brigade in the west, fighting well at the Battle of Camp Wildcat and the Battle of Mill Springs. He was reassigned due to his disagreements with his commander, Don Carlos Buell, after the Battle of Perryville in 1862, and he commanded the Fort Delaware prisoner-of-war camp. He was mustered out in 1866 and returned to the Patent Office, and he died of stomach cancer in 1886.