He started as a 2nd lieutenant, then 1st lieutenant and finally captain and mustered out in 1865.
From Find-A-Grave
OTTO CHARLES HAGER
BIRTH: 16 May1833 / Berlin, Germany
DEATH: 24 May1911 / (Aged 77-78)
BURIAL: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas
From the May 26, 1911, Atchison Daily Globe
While an infant, his parents crossed the Atlanic Ocean, landed in New York and traveled to St. Louis wheren they lived for a year and then moved to Washington, Missouri. (On the banks of te Missouri River about 50 miles west of St. Louis.) The Hagers erected the first log cabin there.
His mother died when he was ten and his father told him he had to go out on his own and earn a living. He worked several years on a farm near St. Louis and then clerked at a country store 30 miles outside St. Louis. In 1850, he was clerking in a St. Louis wholesale grocery house.
The year 1861 found him visiting a sister in Galena, Illinois when the war started. He enlisted in Company D of the 45th Illinois Infantry.
--Old Secesh
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