Count Hacke

from The New York Times, June 10, 1864:

                Obituary.
       COUNT HACKE--BARON VON STEUBEN
  Among the victims of this rebellion we have to
lament the loss of the brave and accomplished Count
HACKE. A native of Prussia, and in the Prussian
army, he obtained a furlough, and coming to this
country, procured a commission as First Lieutenant
in the Seventh (Steuben) New-York Volunteers. He
served in that regiment till its term of service ex-
pired, and subsequently procured a commission as
First Lieutenant in the Fifty-second New-York Vol-
unteers, HANCOCK's corps. He fell in the defence of
the Union while leading a charge at the head of his
company, in the battle of the Wilderness, on the 10th
of May. His friend and countryman, the gallant
Baron VON STEUBEN, also in the same regiment, was
inconsolable on hearing of his fall, and endeavored
to get some message from him to his family, but
without success; he was speechless and soon after-
ward expired.Two days afterward the brave Baron
VON STEUBEN himself was killed. Another brave sol-
dier gone to his rest.
  In HERMANN, Count HACKE, the country has lost a
brave and gallant soldier, while his kind and gentle
heart, modest and unassuming manners endeared
him to the many friends who have now to deplore
his loss. POPE was a favorite poet of his, and one
verse in particular in his "Ode to Solitude:"
     "Thus let me live, unseen, unknown--
     Thus unlamented let me die;
     Steal from the world, and not a stone
     Tell where I lie."
  The latter part was singularly fulfilled, for not
long after his death the woods in which he fell were
consumed by fire, and no traces of his remains could
be discovered. But his epitaph is written in the
hearts of a brave people, as a brave and true soldier
who fell in battle for a noble cause. Honor the
brave.                                    P.