... his staff with the rank of colonel. Louis Jacobs, a prominent citizen of Kingstree, S. C., was born in Germany, November 18, 1842, and educated there. In the spring of 1860 he emigrated to the United States in a sailing vessel and landed in Charleston. He commenced clerking in that city and remained so employed until the war opened, when upon the formation of the German volunteers, a company to be att...