Jefferson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ackerman, Wolfgang 1864
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Fairfield Ledger 08 Dec 1864
Fairfield Ledger
Thurs. Dec. 8, 1864
Page 3 col. 2

DIED—On the 29th of Nov. 1864, of disease contracted in the army, WOLFGANG
ACKERMAN, aged 34 years and 4 days. Native of Rotterstadt, Bavaria, where he
resided until about 23 years of age. He then left the land of his fathers and
emigrated to the United States….Like thousands of others who come to us from
foreign shores, he highly honored the institutions of his adopted country, and
when our national troubles arose he was among the first to proffer his aid to
the government ….On 25 April 1861 he was mustered into the three months service
by CAPT. ADOLPH DANGLER, joined the 3d Missouri Infantry, then under the command
of FRANZ SIGEL…..He was present at the capture of Carthage and Wilson’s Creek,
besides several other engagements of less note…Enlisted in the 43d Illinois
Infantry and continued in the service for three years longer…took part in the
battle of Shiloh, and the sieges of Corinth and Vicksburg. His second term of
service ended on the 25th of October, 1864, only about one month before his
death. He received his naturalization papers and became a loyal citizen of the
Republic which he had served so well, immediately after he left the army. But
now we trust he is a citizen of even a better country than our own, and has
entered upon a service even nobler than the one from which he has been so
recently discharged…He leaves a sister, brother, and a father here to mourn his
early departure.

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