[Alexander Sandor]. Hungarian and American soldier, born in Keszthely, Hungary, on the 18th of December 1811. He joined the Austrian army, and served with Kossuth in the Hungarian war. He emigrated in 1851 to the United States, and in 1861 offered his services to the government. He fought in numerous important battles, always acquitting himself with marked gallantry. He was twice severely wounded, the last time his left cheekbone being broken, and his left arm fractured in two places. He rose through the successive grades to brevet major-general, March 13, 1865, resigning five months later. In 1866 he was appointed United States minister to the Argentine Republic and Uruguay, where he died from the wound in his face on the 21st of January 1868.
