Emil A. Dapper

Age 18, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 59th New York Infantry in New York City on 6 August 1861.

He was in action with his Company at Antietam.

He was promoted to Corporal on 13 February 1863 and transferred to Company C in June 1863. He reenlisted on 22 December, was appointed Sergeant on 15 February 1864, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 16 September (to date from 4 July). He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 22 December (rank from 22 October) and Captain of Company B on 22 February 1865. He mustered out with his Company on 22 June 1865.

He was in Grand Rapids, MI by 1870, and was a member, later Captain, of the Valley City Zouaves, a local militia company. He was a practicing lawyer there in 1880 and Adjutant of Custer Post #5 of the Grand Army of the Republic (1891-93). He was a resident of the Michigan Old Soldiers' Home in Grand Rapids at his death in 1906 at age 62.

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His presence at Antietam from his 1866 testimony about Pvt Jacob Ausman, Company G, from the widow's pension application, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880; his middle name is seen as either August or Ames. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Adelaide Wead Kellogg (1852-1878) in March 1870 in Grand Rapids and they had 4 children before her death at age 26.

02/21/1844 in NY

11/15/1906; Comstock Park, MI; burial in Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI