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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: Heros von Borcke
Additional Description: Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke, a Prussion Army lieutenant who came to America to fight for the Confederacy, was a good friend and aide-de-camp to Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. South of here, during the Battle of Middleburg, the 6-foot-4-inch von Borcke was shot in the neck and seriously wounded. he recuperated in Upperville. Stuart wrote of him; "Like a mast after a storm with its sails torn, and drooping, he drags along, a wreck of the noblest manhood. His heart however unchanged." Von Borcke died in Prussia in 1895 of complications from his war wounds.
Copyright E. O. Wiggins, 1914.
Submitted: January 4, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p561433
File Size: 0.802 Megabytes

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