Asmus Wolf was born September 20, 1839, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and received his education in his native home. At the age of twenty-one he decided to come to America, coming direct to Davenport, where he worked on a farm for about six months. When the late war broke out he enlisted in Company B, Sixteenth Iowa Volunteers, on November 2, 1861, and for the first six months he remained in Camp McClellan. On March 26, 1862, his company was ordered to St. Louis, and from there to Shiloh. He participated in all the battles of his regiment, including Shiloh, Corinth, siege of Vicks burg and many others. In 1863 he reënlisted for another three years, and expected to get a furlough, but before his turn came his regiment was ordered on a scouting expedition to Meridian, Mississippi. On February 7 of that year he was taken prisoner; in company with five comrades he approached a farm-house, where thirty-one rebels were disguised in Union uniforms, and they were fired upon, and Mr. Wolf received seven flesh wounds from as many balls. Two other members of the squad were taken with him, and for three days they were marched without food and were finally taken to Cahaba, Alabama, where they were confined in a cotton gin for ten weeks, when they were transferred to Andersonville prison.
In 1870 he purchased a farm on which he now lives. He owns three hundred acres of as valuable land as there is in Butler Township, and he is one of the ideal and progressive farmers of Scott County.
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