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Updated: September 3, 2025
Among the foreign officers whom the fame of General Fremont drew around him was Charles Zagonyi, an Hungarian refugee, but long a resident of this country. In his boyhood, Zagonyi had plunged into the passionate, but unavailing, struggle which Hungary made for her liberty. He at once attracted the attention of General Bem, and was by him placed in command of a picked company of cavalry.
"I won't speak of those I shot," said he, "another may have hit them; but those I touched with my sabre I am sure of, because I felt them." At the beginning of the charge, he came to the extreme right and took position next to Zagonyi, whom he followed closely through the battle. The Major, seeing him, said, "Why are you here, Sergeant Hunter? Your place is with your company on the left."
The officers were all Americans except three, one Hollander, and two Hungarians, Zagonyi and Lieutenant Maythenyi, who came to the United States during his boyhood. Zagonyi left our camp at eight o'clock on the evening of the twenty-fourth, with about a hundred and sixty men, the remainder of the Guard being left at headquarters under the command of a non-commissioned officer.
I look around for the sentry, not quite sure whether I am to be challenged or shot; but again I am permitted to approach unquestioned. I call out, "Who is there?" "Men of Colonel Carr's regiment." "What are you doing here?" "We are guarding some of our wagons which were left here. Our regiment has gone forward at a half-hour's notice to reinforce Zagonyi," said a sergeant, rising and saluting me.
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