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 | Aug. 7 _Third Sergeant_ -- | | *Frederick Scheer | Prussia | July 23 _Fourth Sergeant_ -- | | Ernst J. Knobelsdorff | Prussia | July 29 _Fifth Sergeant_ -- | | *Elias Siebert | Hesse Cassel | Aug. 2 _First Corporal_ -- | | *Paul P. Huth | Prussia | June 13 _Second Corporal_ -- | | John Burch | Prussia | Aug. 13 _Third Corporal_ -- | | *Mathias Mueller | Prussia | Aug. 5 _Fourth Corporal_ -- | | *William Rohde | Hesse Cassel | Aug. 2 _Fifth Corporal_ -- | | Peter Leitner | Bavaria | Aug. 6 _Sixth Corporal_ -- | | Reinhard Stiefel | Prussia | Aug. 7 _Seventh Corporal_ -- | | George Sauer | Bavaria | Aug. 7 _Eighth Corporal_ -- | | Richard Mueller | Prussia | Aug. 8 _Musician_ -- | | *Charles Seidel | Prussia | July 9 _Privates_ -- | | Bast, William | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 Beckendorf, Peter H. | Prussia | Aug. 14 Becker, Mathias | Prussia | Aug. 13 Besecke, Ferdinand | Prussia | Aug. 14 Blesius, John | Prussia | Aug. 15 Blessner, Charles | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 Boos, Michael | Bavaria | June 12 Bristle, Christian | Baden | Aug. 4 Detert, Henry | Prussia | Aug. 14 Dreis, Nicholas | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 *Eberdt, Charles | Mecklenb | Aug. 13 Eheim, Joseph | Austria | Aug. 14 Fandel, Henry | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 *Ferlein, Joseph | Bavaria | June 2 Fischer, Louis | Switzerland | Aug. 16 Gaheen, Samuel | Canada | Aug. 14 *Gantner, Jacob | Switzerland | June 10 Goldner, Joseph | Prussia | July 23 Griebler, Joseph | Prussia | Aug. 15 *Gropel, Henry | Prussia | Aug. 14 Hahn, F. Carl | Wurtemberg | July 23 Harrfeldt, August | Holstein | July 28 Hauck, Jacob | Baden | Aug. 14 *Hellmann, Herman | Prussia | Aug. 9 Henricks, Frederick | Prussia | July 28 Henricks, Henry | Prussia | Aug. 5 Hill, Alfred J. | England | Aug. 14 Hill, William A. | Virginia | July 22 Hoscheid, Nicholas | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 Jakobi, Conrad | Hesse Darmstadt | July 18 John, Jacob | Bremen | Aug. 18 *Juergens, Louis | Waldeck | Aug. 16 *Kellermann, August | Prussia | Aug. 14 Kernen, Jacob | Switzerland | Aug. 14 Kilian, Philip | Hesse Darmstadt | Aug. 18 *Klinghammer, Louis | Prussia | July 9 *Kobelitz, Frederick | Bremen | July 28 *Koenig, Louis | Baden | Aug. 12 *Kraemer, Frederick | Wurtemberg | Aug. 18 *Krueger, Henry | Schleswig | Aug. 15 Mahle, William | Wurtemberg | Aug. 14 Mann, Jacob | Wurtemberg | Aug. 14 *Martin, Frederick | Prussia | Aug. 16 Metz, Charles | Hanover | Aug. 14 Maurer, John J. | Prussia | Aug. 13 Meyer, John H. | Ohio | Aug. 18 Mueckenhausen, Joseph | Prussia | Aug. 14 Mueckenhausen, Mathias | Prussia | Aug. 14 Mueller, John Jacob | Wurtemberg | Aug. 14 Munson, John | Sweden | June 26 Neierburg, Michael | Luxemburg | Aug. 15 Parks, Thomas M. | Pennsylvania | June 13 *[1]Paulson, George | Prussia | July 28 Paulson, Paul | Norway | June 10 Peterson, Ole | Norway | July 28 Porth, William | Prussia | Aug. 7 Praxl, Anthony A. | Austria | Aug. 18 Radke, Rudolph | Prussia | Aug. 18 Rehse, August | Prussia | Aug. 4 *Reimers, Joachim | Holstein | Aug. 13 *Reuter, Henry | Hanover | July 23 Rossion, Jean | Belgium | July 31 Schafer, Henry | Canada | Aug. 14 Schauer, August | Prussia | Aug. 4 Scheibel, Augustin | France | Aug. 15 Schene, William | Hanover | Aug. 12 Schermann, George | Austria | Aug. 11 Schoenheiter, Frederick | Prussia | Aug. 16 Simon, John | Prussia | Aug. 14 Smith, Joseph | France | Aug. 14 Smith, William A. | Indiana | Aug. 19 Sproesser, William D.