1. George Pomutz was a Romanian-American officer during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Habsburgs, a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War, a lawyer, and a diplomat.
10 Facts About George Pomutz
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George Pomutz was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, in the town of Gyula, Bekes county, to ethnic Romanian orthodox parents Ioan and Victoria, the family originally from Negyfalu, near Brasso in Transylvania, settling in Gyula during the second half of the 18th century.
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George Pomutz received his primary and secondary education in Hungary, followed by the Military Academy in Vienna and Military Academy Saint Etienne.
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George Pomutz served as a captain in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
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George Pomutz became a US citizen on March 15,1855.
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George Pomutz purchased land and a mining concession, the 1860 US Census finding him living in Decatur, Iowa.
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At the beginning of the Civil War, Pomutz enrolled in the Union Army as a first lieutenant in the 15th Iowa Infantry Regiment.
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In May 1864, after George Pomutz had commanded the provisional Iowa Battalion, Maj.
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George Pomutz was buried in Smolensky Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russia but his grave seems to have disappeared, possibly after the re-purposing of cemetery lands by the Bolsheviks, after the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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The Liberty ship SS George Pomutz was named after him.