George Pomutz (31 May 1818 – 12 October 1882) was a Brigadier-General of the United States during the American Civil War.
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George Pomutz was born on 31 May 1818 in Gyula, Bekes County, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Hungary). His parents were Romanians from the Austrian province of Transylvania. In 1848 he fought in the Hungarian Revolution, and in 1849 he emigrated to the United States. He settled around Keokuk, Iowa, where Pomutz and a group of Romanian and Hungarian immigrants founded "New Buda". In 1855 he became a US citizen, and Pomutz purchased some land in Decatur. At the start of the American Civil War, Pomutz joined the 15th Iowa Infantry Regiment as a First Lieutenant and fought against the Confederate States, being wounded at the 1862 Battle of Shiloh and leading the 15th Iowa at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. After the war, he returned to Keokuk. From 1866 to 1870 he was the Consul to the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg, and from 1874 to 1882 he was the Consul General. He died in St. Petersburg on 12 October 1882 and was buried in the Smolensky Cemetery.