Lt. Col. Herman Zakrzewski



Contributed by: Bob Doerr






St. Louisan Lt. Col. Herman Zakrzewski led his men in a battle, probably Corinth or Rienzi. He 
was injured, however, when training the men in the use of the bayonet at Sullivan, Mo., Jan-Feb 
1862; he was stuck in the face. He was the 2d U.S. Reserve Corps.
 
Herman, my great-grandfather, of noble Polish ancestry, was born in Berlin in 1836 and died in 
St. Louis May 1908. He was a machinist by trade and was a partner in a machine shop.
 
His sister was the famed Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, M.D.











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