Ernst Gerhardt Timme (June 23, 1843 – April 1, 1923) was a German American immigrant, farmer, and Republican politician.
He was a Union Army volunteer in the American Civil War and lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga.
[2] Timme was educated in the common schools in Wheatland, and, on turning 18, he enlisted in the Union Army for service in the American Civil War.
The company proceeded to Camp Scott in Milwaukee, and was integrated into the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, which was reorganizing after its previous 3-month enlistment had expired.
[3] Timme's company was designated Company C.[2] The reorganized 1st Wisconsin was ordered to proceed to Jefferson, Indiana, and then to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where they were attached to the brigade of General James S. Negley, in the division of Alexander McDowell McCook, and shortly thereafter became part of the Army of the Cumberland.
With his regiment, Timme participated in the battles of Perryville, Stones River, Hoover's Gap, and Chickamauga, in the campaign for control over Middle Tennessee in the western theater of the war.
[1][2] After his amputation, Timme decided to pursue higher education at Bryant & Stratton College in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated in 1865.