Qualla: Heros von Borcke https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Heros von Borcke https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke Heros von Borcke: Introduction https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Public domain. The bullet that killed Heros von Borcke entered his neck at Middleburg, Virginia, on 19 June 1863. It took thirty-two years to finish. Surgeons never got it out. He carried it through the rest of the American Civil War, a second European campaign, two marriages and a career as a Pomeranian landowner, and in May 1895 the infection it had been quietly feeding turned to sepsis and killed him in Berlin. He was buried at Giesenbrugge, his family's estate east of the Oder - a village called Gizyn today, in Poland, where a Prussian nobleman's mausoleum sits in an old cemetery because of a war fought four thousand miles away.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/u36t-heros-von-borcke-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Heros von Borcke: A Lieutenant Out of Money https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Anne-theater, CC BY-SA 3.0. He was born on 23 July 1835 inside the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine, into the von Borckes, an old Pomeranian noble family. His father Theodor owned the manor at Giesenbrugge in the New March and sat in the Prussian House of Lords from 1856; his mother Therese died in ...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/u36t-heros-von-borcke-a-lieutenant-out-of-money.mp3 0:06 2 full Heros von Borcke: The Giant in Gray https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Anne-theater, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the end of the month he had reached Richmond, and on 1 June 1862 the Secretary of War, George W. Randolph, commissioned him captain and posted him to Major General J.E.B. Stuart. He was enormous - tall, heavy, and swinging that Solingen blade - and the Confederate cavalry name...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/u36t-heros-von-borcke-the-giant-in-gray.mp3 0:06 3 full Heros von Borcke: The Memoir https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Anne-theater, CC BY-SA 3.0. He recovered enough to resume staff work in the spring of 1864 and was at Yellow Tavern in May when Stuart was shot and killed. In December he was made lieutenant colonel and voted the official thanks of the Confederate Congress, then sent by Jefferson Davis on a diplomatic erran...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/u36t-heros-von-borcke-the-memoir.mp3 0:06 4 full Heros von Borcke: The Flag Over Giesenbrugge https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Anne-theater, CC BY-SA 3.0. Prussia took him back. He fought in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 on the staff of Prince Friedrich Karl and was decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle, then retired in 1867 with his wounds still troubling him. He bought an estate at Sichts, now Zychce, and after his father's...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/6/t/heros-von-borcke-wp/u36t-heros-von-borcke-the-flag-over-giesenbrugge.mp3 0:06 5 full Heros von Borcke: The Grave at Gizyn https://qualla.com/heros-von-borcke/ Photo credit Anne-theater, CC BY-SA 3.0. He died in Berlin on 10 May 1895, of sepsis traced to the projectile still sitting in him from Middleburg, and was laid in a mausoleum in the old cemetery at Giesenbrugge. Half a century later the war reached him anyway. Red Army troops destroyed the headstone during the Second W...

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