of Saxony. After his death in 1885 an autopsy was performed to document his widow's claim that he died as a result of infection from his war wound. This claim was accepted by the United States Commissioner of Pensions. Reports of various dates of his death are the result of ignorance on the part of his American descendants. References Further reading Publications authored by Baron F. W. von Egloffstein Contributions to the Geology and the Physical Geography of Mexico including a geological and topographical map, with profiles of some to the principal mining districts; together with a graphic description of an ascent of the Volcano Popocatapetl (New York: Appleton & Co., 1864). The Babcock & Wilcox's Patent Stationary Steam Engine: Illustrated, and its Superiority and Economy Demonstrated, Manufactured by Atlantic Works (New York: O'Sullivan, McBride & Marrat, 1868). Publications authored by Others Carvalho, Solomon Nunez, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West: with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip across the Great American Desert to the Pacific (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857), various 20th century editions. Egloffstein, Maximilian Freiherr von, Chronik der vormaligen Reichsherren, jetzt Grafen und Freiherren von und zu Egloffstein (Aschaffenburg, 1894). Graf, Andreas, Der Tod der Wölfe: Das abenteuerliche und das bürgerliche Leben des Romanschriftstellers und Amerikareisenden Balduin Möllhausen (1825-1905) (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991). Huseman, Ben W., Wild River, Timeless Canyons: Balduin Möllhausen's Watercolors of the Colorado (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum; Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995). Ives, Joseph Christmas, Report upon the Colorado River of the West explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, J. A. Humphries, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge, USCSS, vol. 1058, 1861. Pacific Railroad Reports, 13 vols. Rowan, Steven, The Baron in the Grand Canyon: Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2012. German engravers 1824 births 1885 deaths Union Army colonels People of New York (state) in the American Civil War