Rudolph Septimus Siegling (3 December 1839 – 13 March 1894) was a Civil War veteran, legislator and prominent lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina.
German American General Rudolph Siegling was born in Port Royal, Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest son of Prussian immigrant Johann Zacharias Siegling and his wife Mary Schnierle.
[3][4] At the beginning of the American Civil War, a company of German Volunteers was raised for the Confederacy and Siegling became its second lieutenant.
[5] After the war, Siegling became a Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia, commanding the 4th Brigade.
[6] He had a successful career as a lawyer and served terms in South Carolina's legislature.