Jacob Madert

He arrived in New York from Prussia on 20 June 1857 in steerage aboard the SS Belgique out of Antwerp. He was 24 years old. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 2nd US Infantry, on 31 May 1858.

He was wounded - struck on the wrist by a part of an artillery shell - on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He had his left arm (or hand) amputated and was discharged for disability on 2 March 1863. He then enlisted in Army General Service as a messenger at the War Department in April 1863.

He continued at the War Department, and was there for 54 years until his death, lastly in the office of the Adjutant General of the Army. He was reported to have never taken a sick day.

His service from the Registers.1 His picture is from a seated portrait on display in the Antietam National Battlefield Visitor's Center (as of 2015). Death and burial from his gravesite on Findagrave. His birthplace from the Official Register of the United States (Vol. 1, US Department of the Interior, 1892). His arrival in the US from the National Archives, German Immigration Manifests (1850 - 1897) and related online database. Details from his death notice in the Washington Herald of 23 November 1917.

c. 1833; Cologne, PRUSSIA

11/21/1917; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA