Ignacy Szymański
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Ignacy Szymański (b. 1806 - d. 1874) nicknamed Colonel Sky or Old Sky was a Polish and American soldier. He served in Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
After the Poles had lost November Uprising, Szymański emigrated to the United States and in 1835 he settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. Soon he also established a cotton plantation. His friends in the South were the other Poles who had been living near: Kasper Tochman, Walerian Sułakowski and Hipolit Ołdakowski. When the Civil War had begun, Ignacy Szymanski was appointed to colonel of Chalmette Regiment, Louisiana State Militia. Later he served as the agent of prisoners' exchange in Trans-Mississippi Department. After the war he came back to his plantation Summer Hill Farm where he died in 1874.
