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Szymanski, Ignace
Colonel in the Confederate Army of the Civil War. Came to U.S. as an exile after the fall of the Polish Insurrection in 1831; settled in Louisiana, where he became the owner of a large plantation, 15 miles south from New Orleans; joined the Confederate Army, was appointed Colonel and commandant of the Infantry of Louisiana: Chalmette Regiment. In 1862 defended the fort of New Orleans, where he was captured by the Union Army, later exchanged. Upon his return to the Confederate Army, he was nominated adjutant of General Inspector of the Exchange of the War prisoners in Transmississippi.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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