在亲历被美国史家称为“合众国成立的洗礼”的美国南北战争的联邦军队士兵中，竟有一位鲜为人知、来自大洋彼岸的中国人，他就是中国圣公会的牧师吴虹玉先生。一、初入学堂吴虹玉1834年8月出生于江苏常州阳湖县庵头村，其家世代务农。吴父本姓徐，因过继给舅氏吴某，遂改姓吴。 Among the soldiers of the U.S. Army witnessed by the American historians as “the founding member of the United States,” a well-known Chinese from across the ocean, he was the Rev. Wu Hongyu of the Anglican Church of China. First, early school Wu Hongyu was born in August 1834 in Yangzhou County, Changzhou, Jiangsu An Tau Village, its family farming. Wu father surnamed Xu, because of the successor to the uncle Wu, then change surnamed Wu.