Captain Justus Scheibert (1831–1903) was a Prussian army officer, sent by

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to America to observe the

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in order to learn the lessons to be learned and return to Prussia to teach these lessons to the Prussian troops. He traveled with Confederate troops and witnessed the

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, the

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, and the

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. His writings became a source of Prussian, and later German, military strategy through five subsequent wars. He later became the editor of the "Post aus dem Riesengebirge".

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* 1831 births 1903 deaths German military writers German male non-fiction writers {{US-hist-stub