Frederick Rudolph De Funiak was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
[1] De Funiak was born in Rome, Papal States, on August 5, 1839, and came to America in 1862.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army as captain in the engineering department and later was promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
In 1870, the Memphis & Charleston, the Mississippi Central Railroad, and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway roads sent Colonel De Funiak abroad to study European railroad construction methods, and when he returned a year later, he accepted the position of superintendent of machinery with the Louisville & Nashville.
De Funiak died at his residence in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 29, 1905, at age 65.