When August E Sunderlage was born on 10 June 1859, in Hanover Township, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Johann Mencke Schwiethard Sunderlage, was 55 and his mother, Catharina Adelheid Greve, was 40. He married Sophia Dopke on 28 February 1884, in Hanover Township, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Barrington, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 18 November 1943, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Dundee Township, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
From Latin. See Augustus .
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