Ackerman, Amen

Rank: Private

Unit: K Co, 2d Dragoons

Enlisted: January 19, 1837 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was 26.

Date of birth: 1810

Occupation prior to enlistment: Laborer

Campaign: Second Seminole War

Died: 19 November 1839

Age at death: 28

Cause of death: Drowned

Location of fatality: en route from Savannah to Black Creek, Florida

Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida

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