Nelson Jacobsen

Going back into the family tree one Adam Weinrich  shows up at the oldest service member and he paid the ultimate honor, dying for what he believe in was a good and noble cause.  Adams  buried in Andersonville Cemetery where he died and is simply listed as the following: Prisoner Details Return to Results Weinrich, Adam SIDE: Union UNIT NAME: 9 New Jersey Infantry REGIMENT: 9 STATE: New Jersey FUNCTION: Infantry COMPANY: C RANK: Corporal DESCRIPTION: Buried in National Cemetery CAPTURE DATE: CAPTURE SITE: ALTERNATE NAME: Wainwright REMARKS: PRIVATE [1]; WAINWRIGHT, FIRST NAME NOT LISTED, RANK NOT LISTED [3]; RANK [6] http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-prisoners-andersonville-detail.htm?prisonerId=06E45F66-EC98-4C58-AB5B-64D149BA0470&prisonerLocation=A He's on my Dad's mother side and from what I can tell goes back to a long line of  Germany & Austria Military and Marine Officers,   and that very interesting...

This is Adam Weinrich he is oldest know US Veteran in our family. He died in 1864 and is still laying not to far from where he died in Andersonville Prison during the senseless war of states. He lays in earth National Historic Site, Andersonville National Historic Site, 496 Cemetery Rd, Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia, 31711, USA One of the stories is that our fore fathers on my Fathers dad's side bought his large family to Sheffiled Il to escape the last Danish Draft. From there every Jacobsen served in the Military and I figured I was going to right up until the moment I walked out of the recruitment station in Hyttsville, MD. It seems the fleet officers was convinced that I wanted to be like Top Gun which had just come out and that I keep saying that I wear glasses and know I cannot fly so why would I take the aviation part of the OQT. Needless to say I couldn't convince him that I wanted to go into Navel Intel. Go figure. So on this Veteran's day I salute al...