Justus Scheibert

{{short description|Prussian army officer and military strategist}}

{{Infobox military person

| name = Justus Scheibert

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| birth_date = 1831

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1903|1831}}

| death_place = Berlin

| nationality = Prussian

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| occupation = Military strategist, Author

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| allegiance = {{flag|Kingdom of Prussia}}

| branch = {{army|Kingdom of Prussia}}

| battles = American Civil War (observing)

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Captain Justus Scheibert (1831–1903) was a Prussian army officer, sent by Prussia to America to observe the American Civil War in order to learn the lessons to be learned and return to Prussia to teach these lessons to the Prussian troops. He traveled with Confederate troops and witnessed the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, and the Battle of Gettysburg.{{Cite web |last=Nadeau |first=Ryan |date=2014-12-12 |title=Justus Scheibert and International Observation of the Civil War |url=https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2014/12/12/justus-scheibert-and-international-observation-of-the-civil-war/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=The Gettysburg Compiler |language=en}} His writings became a source of Prussian, and later German, military strategy through five subsequent wars.

{{cite book |last=Scheibert |first=Justus |editor-first=Frederic |editor-last=Trautmann |title=A Prussian observes the American Civil War: the military studies of Justus Scheibert |url=https://archive.org/details/prussianobserves00sche_0|url-access=registration |accessdate=2010-09-07 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=0-8262-1348-0 |year=2001 }} He later became the editor of the "Post aus dem Riesengebirge".