Served with Company A, 18th US Infantry, 2nd Battalion, was killed at the Fetterman Massacre. Soldiers killed with Fetterman were first buried at Ft Phil Kearny. After the fort closed, post burials were moved to the Custer National Cemetery.
Name
Frederick Aikerman
Death Date
21 Dec 1866
Burial Place
Fort Phil, Dakota Territory, USA
Rank
Private
Regiment
18th Inf 2d B
Company
A∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Ackerman a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of US Inf., born in St. Gallan in the state of Switzerland aged 22 years, Five feet Five inches high, Fair complexion, Hazel eyes, Black hair, and by profession a Soldier, was enlisted by Col Ewing at Cincinnati on the Fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Ferdinand Ackerman is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Name
Frederick Aikerman
Death Date
21 Dec 1866
Burial Place
Fort Phil, Dakota Territory, USA
Rank
Private
Regiment
18th Inf 2d B
Company
A∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Ackerman a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of US Inf., born in St. Gallan in the state of Switzerland aged 22 years, Five feet Five inches high, Fair complexion, Hazel eyes, Black hair, and by profession a Soldier, was enlisted by Col Ewing at Cincinnati on the Fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Ferdinand Ackerman is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Served with Company A, 18th US Infantry, 2nd Battalion, was killed at the Fetterman Massacre. Soldiers killed with Fetterman were first buried at Ft Phil Kearny. After the fort closed, post burials were moved to the Custer National Cemetery.
Name
Frederick Aikerman
Death Date
21 Dec 1866
Burial Place
Fort Phil, Dakota Territory, USA
Rank
Private
Regiment
18th Inf 2d B
Company
A∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Ackerman a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of US Inf., born in St. Gallan in the state of Switzerland aged 22 years, Five feet Five inches high, Fair complexion, Hazel eyes, Black hair, and by profession a Soldier, was enlisted by Col Ewing at Cincinnati on the Fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Ferdinand Ackerman is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Name
Frederick Aikerman
Death Date
21 Dec 1866
Burial Place
Fort Phil, Dakota Territory, USA
Rank
Private
Regiment
18th Inf 2d B
Company
A∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Ackerman a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of US Inf., born in St. Gallan in the state of Switzerland aged 22 years, Five feet Five inches high, Fair complexion, Hazel eyes, Black hair, and by profession a Soldier, was enlisted by Col Ewing at Cincinnati on the Fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Ferdinand Ackerman is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
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