Ackerman, Wolfgang

ACKERMAN

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/30/2005 at 23:39:32

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.