Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Lins na Wachstedt, bụ́ obere obodo dị n'ebe bụzi steeti Thuringia nke dị n'etiti Germany. Na 1857, mgbe ọ dị afọ 17, ezinụlọ ya kwagara United States. Ezinụlọ ya zụtara ugbo dị nso na Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ ma biri ruo 1859. Na 1859, ọ gara St. Louis, wee gaa New Orleans, ebe ọ nọrọ ruo mgbe Agha Obodo America malitere. Ọ laghachiri Milwaukee, na ụbọchị atọ mgbe ọ bịarutere, ọ wepụtara onwe ya maka ije ozi na ndị agha Union. E debanyere aha ya na 5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment na Camp Randall, na, na July 1861, jere ije maka mpaghara ọwụwa anyanwụ nke agha ahụ. Agha ndị o so lụọ gụnyere Agha Lee's Mill, Agha Williamsburg,
Agha nke Savage's Station, Agha nke White Oak Swamp, Agha nke Malvern Hill, Agha nke Crampton's Gap, Agha nke Antietam, Agha nke Fredericksburg, Agha nke Gettysburg, Agha nke Spotsylvania Court House, yana Agha nke Cold Harbor, nke ọ merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, o bi na Eagle, Wisconsin, na Waukesha County.