Captain Constantin Blandowski, a Polish-American, was in command of company F in Colonel Franz Sigel's Third Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Camp Jackson where he received a leg wound. Captain Blandowski would die the next day from the wound making him the first Federal officer killed in the American Civil War. Buried in an unmarked grave.
There is a memorial marker in Jefferson Barracks.
There is a memorial marker in Jefferson Barracks.
Captain Constantin Blandowski, a Polish-American, was in command of company F in Colonel Franz Sigel's Third Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Camp Jackson where he received a leg wound. Captain Blandowski would die the next day from the wound making him the first Federal officer killed in the American Civil War. Buried in an unmarked grave.
There is a memorial marker in Jefferson Barracks.
There is a memorial marker in Jefferson Barracks.
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