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August Buchel A Calhoun County Militia Leader
August Buchel arrived in Indianola in 1845 at age 30 aboard the schooner New York and raised a German emigrant company in Calhoun County. A veteran of European wars and the Mexican War, he served under Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista and later commanded the Third Texas Infantry and First Texas Cavalry, with a noted social life in Matamoros. He died after Mansfield in 1864 and left a marked grave funded by Texas taxpayers, remaining a government welfare recipient to the end.
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August Buchel
Lavaca
Indianola
New York
Carl Buchel
DeWitt County
Europe
Darmstadt
L’ecole Militaire
Paris
Taylor
Rachel
Indian Point
Buena Vista
Buchel
Calhoun County
Legs" Lewis
John Ford
George DeCloudt
George Trahearn
J. P. O'Brien
Clements
Port Lavaca
Third Texas Infantry Regiment
Texas Cavalry
Arthur Freemantle
Brownsville
Texas Infantry
South
R. H. Williamson
Texas Rangers
Third
3Rd
Texas
Williamson
Matamoros
Felix Bluecher
Calhoun County Court House
Nueces
Rio Grande
Tom Lea
Mansfield
Louisiana
Banks
Matagorda Island
Pleasant Hill
Martin Jackson
Victoria County
Library of Congress
A. Fitzpatrick
Garcitas
Aeronosa
First Texas Cavalry
Col. Buchel
Red Cross
Jackson
Marshall
John Henry Brown
Austin
State
Brown
Green
Henry McCullough
Fletcher S. Stockdale
Charles Schlebach
Ohio
Schlebach
Chocolate Bayou
Red Bluffs
Placebo Creek
Lavaca County
Texana Road
John Schlebach