Editing Franz Sigel (section)

==Postbellum career==
[[File:Appleton's Sigel Franz.jpg|thumb|Portrait from [[Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography|Appleton's Cyclopedia]]]]
Sigel resigned his commission on May 4, 1865. He worked as editor of the ''[[Baltimore Wecker]]'' for a short time,<ref name="NIE"/> and then as a newspaper editor in [[New York City]]. He filled a variety of political positions there, both as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. In [[New York state election, 1869|1869]], he ran on the Republican ticket for [[Secretary of State of New York]], losing to the incumbent Democrat [[Homer Augustus Nelson]]. In May 1871 he became collector of internal revenue, and then in October 1871 register of the city.{{sfn|Reynolds|1921}} In 1887, President [[Grover Cleveland]] appointed him pension agent for the city of New York. He also lectured, worked in advertising and published the ''New York Monthly'', a German-American periodical, for some years.<ref name="NIE"/>

Franz Sigel died in New York in 1902 and is buried in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]]. His granddaughter, [[Elsie Sigel]], was the victim of a notorious murder.