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ciates to like spirit. But in her verses she poured out the feel¬ 
ings of her heart. They are 
Short swallow flights of song 
That dip their wings in tears. 
An unhappy early marriage and consequent legal struggle to 
obtain possession of her child led her to become a warm advocate 
of equal legal rights for women. She established in Germany 
what was doubtless the pioneer woman’s rights journal—which 
the government promptly suppressed. Her second husband, 
Fritz Ann eke, was a Prussian officer whose sympathies became 
enlisted in the cause of the revolutionists of ’48. When Anneke 
was imprisoned at Cologne awaiting trial on the charge of 
treason., Madame Anneke sold furniture and carpets and re¬ 
placed them with a printing press, editing a revolutionary news¬ 
paper till forced to fly for safety. In the meantime her husband 
had been liberated, and she joined him in the field. She ac¬ 
cepted a place on his staff, of which Carl S'ehurz was also a 
member. Madame Anneke served till the end of the' struggle, 
saw many battlefields and was in the thickest of the fray, doing 
a soldier’s duty and sharing all the hardships of her soldier hus¬ 
band. They were forced to flee for their lives, finding haven 
first in France, then in Switzerland. In 1849 they came to 
America. Madame Anneke lectured to large audiences in Bos¬ 
ton, Hew York and Philadelphia, In the ’50’s she began the 
publication of the Framenzeitung. The latter period of her life 
was devoted to educational work. 7 
Interesting as are the careers of the other members of Madame 
Anneke’s circle, the limits of this paper will not permit extended 
mention. Eldmund Maerklin Was a, member of Franz Sigel’s 
staff in the Revolution of ’48. He was a personal friend of 
such well-known German literary men as IJhland, Gustav 
Schwab, Justinus Kerner, Nicolas Mliiller and Herwegh. He 
was the author of many keen satires. His celebrated poem 
“Der Deutsche Cavallerist,” written when Vicksburg capitu¬ 
lated, is said to' have been printed at the time in every German 
newspaper published in North America,. 8 
t A sketch of Madame Anneke’s interesting career was printed in The 
Milwaukee Sentinel Nov. 26, 1884. 
s Carl Anneke contributed a long and excellent sketch’ of Maerklin to 
Im Strom,e der Zeit , Milwaukee, 1886, p. 4-8. 
