auft, and Krueger, of
Lower Town, St. Paul. They joined in a body. (2) Bast, Blesius,
Blessner, Dreis, Fandel, Greibler, Hoscheid, and Neierburg were
enlisted August 15th by Messrs. Julius Gross and Lieutenant Kreitz, of
St. Paul, for the Tenth Regiment, but were transferred to the Sixth.
(3) George Paulson, a recruit for L. C. Dayton's company (St. Paul) for
the Eighth Regiment, was transferred to the Sixth. (4) John, Kilian,
Kraemer, Meyer, Praxl, and Radke came to Fort Snelling from Winona, as
recruits for the Seventh Regiment, but enlisted instead in the Sigel
Guards. All the recruits were enlisted and sworn in as privates except
the drummer, the period of enlistment being "for three years unless
sooner discharged."

The general rendezvous was at Fort Snelling, and, the "minimum" number
(83) having been obtained, the company was provisionally organized
there, on the 16th of August, by the enlisted men expressing, by vote,
their preference for candidates to fill the commissioned offices, and
by the captain, then chosen, appointing the non-commissioned officers.
Schoenemann and Holl were thus respectively elected captain and second
lieutenant of the Sigel Guards, and were commissioned as such, on the
19th, by the Governor of the State, and Lieutenant Exel, already
commissioned (August 11th), accepted as first lieutenant.

By the 19th of August the aggregate number of members was 94; their
names, rank, etc., being shown in the following roll:

----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------
| | When
NAME | NATIVE COUNTRY | Enlisted
| | 1862
----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------
OFFICERS. | |
----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------
_Captain_ -- | |
*Rudolph Schoenemann | Prussia | Aug. 14
_First Lieutenant_ -- | |
Christian Exel | Hesse Darmstadt | Aug. 6
_Second Lieutenant_ -- | |
Mathias Holl | Hesse Darmstadt | July 23
_First Sergeant_ -- | |
Justus B. Bell | Ohio | Aug. 4
_Second Sergeant_ -- | |
George Huhn | Bavaria