1. Prince Felix Constantin Alexander Johann Nepomuk of Salm-Salm was a Prussian military officer of princely birth and a soldier of fortune.
13 Facts About Felix Salm-Salm
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Felix Salm-Salm was killed in action during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Prince Felix Constantin Alexander Johann Nepomuk of Salm-Salm, was born at Anholt Castle, the Residenz of the former Principality of Salm, which had been incorporated into the Prussian Province of Westphalia by 1815.
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Felix Salm-Salm was the third and youngest son of Prince Florentin, the formerly reigning Prince of Salm-Salm, and his wife Flaminia di Rossi, a Corsican noblewoman and niece of Prince Felice Pasquale Baciocchi.
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Felix Salm-Salm grew up training to be a soldier at a cadet-school in Berlin and became an officer in the Prussian 11th Hussar Regiment in 1846.
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Felix Salm-Salm was given a colonel's commission and assigned to the staff of Brigadier General Louis Blenker.
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Felix Salm-Salm had met her at a reception given by President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, where he was introduced by the Prussian envoy Friedrich von Gerolt.
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Felix Salm-Salm was eventually released and actually appointed colonel of New York's 68th in June, 1864, serving under Brigadier General James B Steedman in Tennessee and Georgia, he took part in the Battle of Nashville, and toward the end of the war was assigned to the command of the post at Atlanta.
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Felix Salm-Salm was mustered out of the volunteers on November 30,1865.
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Felix Salm-Salm was in an unusual position because he had fought for the Union while most of the Americans who moved to Mexico after the Civil War had fought for the Confederacy.
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Felix Salm-Salm was captured at Queretaro along with the emperor but not before he made a brave charge with his hussar cavalry in an attempt to save Maximilian from the surrounding Mexican Republican army under Benito Juarez.
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Felix Salm-Salm was killed at Saint-Privat-la-Montagne during the Battle of Gravelotte in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Felix Salm-Salm's memoirs were edited by German author Otto von Corvin.