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My Name is Jacob — Robert Sell
My Name is Jacob is the story of Robert's great-grandfather Jacob Sell, born in 1836, the son of German immigrants, and raised on a farm in Indiana. He enlisted in the army at age twenty-four.
He was assigned to Company F, Forty-Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment and sent to battle in Mississippi River area. After three and a half years of battle, he and a group of his unit were captured in the Battle of Sabine Crossroads on the Texas-Louisiana border.
They were taken to Andersonville Prison, where they spent the next year until war's end. He lived with the effects of imprisonment for the rest of his life.
He was assigned to Company F, Forty-Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment and sent to battle in Mississippi River area. After three and a half years of battle, he and a group of his unit were captured in the Battle of Sabine Crossroads on the Texas-Louisiana border.
They were taken to Andersonville Prison, where they spent the next year until war's end. He lived with the effects of imprisonment for the rest of his life.
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