The single chapter in his life on which light was desirable was the military episode.

The cruel and false saying, "I fight mit Sigel und runs mit Schurz," obviously the offspring of malignity, did mislead many people, reenforced by the knowledge that Schurz was not an educated soldier.

How thoroughly he disposes of this calumny his memoirs attest.

Fuller, more convincing vindication could not be asked of any man; albeit by those familiar with the man himself it could not be doubted that he had both courage and aptitude for military employment.
II A philosopher and an artist, he was drawn by circumstance into the vortex of affairs.

Except for the stirring events of 1848, he might have lived and died a professor at Bonn or Heidelberg.