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“and he became a communist. He was court-martialed but allowed to resign from the army. In the revolutions of 1848 he fought to overthrow his king and, failing, fled to America. There he became first a carpenter and then the editor of a German-language newspaper in Cincinnati with a slant so leftist he earned the nickname "Reddest of the Red." When the Civil War came, Willich recruited fifteen hundred Cincinnati Germans within a matter of hours and helped organize the Ninth Ohio-now marching with the XIV Corps.” American Civil WarUnion Army Book:Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns Source: Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns