Minnesota 11th Infantry Regiment

In setting up this blog, it was my hope that family history would be something people could blog about if they learned something interesting or new. In reading part of Lawrence Jacobs's book, I learned that Jenny's great-great grandfather served in the Minnesota 11th Infantry Regiment from August 1964-July 1965. Although Lawrence calls the Jacobs who served, Michael, I'm pretty sure that it must have been Mathias (Michael's father) who served. Here's a short synopsis of that regiment's activities during the Civil War. It matches the report in Lawrence's book.

11th Regiment Infantry
Organized at Fort Snelling, Minn., August and September, 1864. Moved to Chicago, St. Louis, Mo., and Nashville, Tenn., Attached to railroad guard Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, 4th Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Assigned to duty guarding line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad from Nashville to the Kentucky line. Companies "E," "G" and "I" at Gallatin, Tenn.; Company "A" at Buck Lodge; Company "B" at Edgefield Junction; Company "C" at Richland; Company "D" at Sandersville; Companies "F" and "K" at--------, and Company "H" at Mitchellsville; moved to St. Paul; Mustered out June 26, 1865, and discharged at St. Paul July 11, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and 1 Officer and 21 Enlisted men by disease. Total 25.

A Civil War regiment numbered about 1,000 men. It would be fun if any of us were to travel to Nashville and visit one of the aforementioned towns and imagine how Mathias Jacobs served his new country almost 150 ago.

UPDATE: I searched a Civil War database and discovered that it was definitely Mathias Jacobs who served, and he was assigned to Company F, which unfortunately, according to the information above (and in Lawrence Jacobs's book), it isn't recorded which town exactly along the railway line that he was stationed. It was probably a very small town.