When the Civil War started in 1861, Akerman joined the Confederate Army and achieved the rank of Colonel.

After the Civil War ended in 1865, Akerman joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction and became an outspoken attorney advocate for African American civil rights in Georgia.

Although he was against secession as a solution to the North-South conflicts, Akerman stayed loyal to his adopted state and joined the Confederate States Army in the spring of 1864.

To stop the rumor, in a letter from Elberton, Akerman published his full endorsement for Ulysses S. Grant and would serve as the Republican presidential state elector from Georgia.

In 1846, Akerman was hired as a tutor for John M. Berrien's, children in Savannah, Georgia.

Amos Akerman also strongly advocated Georgia ’ s readmission into the Union and therefore fought for stability and federal compliance in the South.

Akerman believed that Congressional Reconstruction had been the better plan for the Southern states, opposed to President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.

In June 1869, Akerman argued in defense of Richard W. White, a mullato who had won the state election for Superior Court county clerk.

Interestingly, Akerman was the “ only person from the Confederacy to reach cabinet rank during Reconstruction .” Having become attorney general shortly after the creation of the new Justice Department, Akerman dealt with legal issues from the Department of the Interior, such as the question of whether competing railroad companies deserved more land in the West in return for expanding the country ’ s transportation system.

Akerman, however, ruled that the Commission did not constitutionally have the power to forbid an appointment ; only to aid the President and Congress to put in the best person qualified for the job.

Akerman denied that Delano was the reason for his departure from office.

In 1973, Akerman returned to Belgium and, in 1974, received critical recognition for her feature Je tu il elle.

Nevertheless, in a speech he gave shortly before his death, Kogălniceanu commented that Catinca Stavilla had been the descendant of " a Genoese family, settled for centuries in the Genoese colony of Cetatea Albă ( Akerman ), whence it then scattered throughout Bessarabia ".

In 1898, Leno and his family moved to 56 Akerman Road, Lambeth, where they lived for several years.

Arriving at Constantinople, Schiltberger stayed in hiding there for a time ; he then returned to his Bavarian home ( 1427 ) by way of Kilia, Akerman, Lemberg, Kraków, Breslau and Meissen.

Johansson brought Johan Akerman for the defence who didn't give much impulse.

Piers Akerman ( born 1 June 1950 ) is an Australian journalist and editor, now a conservative commentator and columnist for the Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Penberthy started his career as an industrial relations reporter and then political reporter for the Adelaide-based The Advertiser, hired by then editor Piers Akerman.

Akerman admitted he was initially strongly opposed to blacks voting, however, his opinion changed as he viewed the only way blacks could gain protection was through suffrage.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in her first comedic role since My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before ; A Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman and co-starred William Hurt.

Akerman was assisted by Sol.

After he resigned office, Akerman continued in his thriving law practice in Georgia and was highly popular in the state.

Akerman was born on February 23, 1821 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire as the ninth of Benjamin Akerman ’ s twelve children.

Akerman was known as a strict teacher.

In terms of politics Akerman was a Whig.

Akerman first served in General Robert Toombs ’ brigade and later in the quartermaster ’ s department where it was his job to procure and dispense uniforms, weapons and other supplies to the soldiers.

During the 1868 Presidential election there was concern that Akerman supported presidential candidate Horatio Seymour over Grant.

" Akerman wrote that violence in the South against blacks was motivated by revenge after being defeated by the North, slaves having been taken away, and were dissenfranchised politically.

Akerman ruled that the Commission, run by a chairman appointed by the President, was legal, since Congress and the President had every right in their constitutional power to put in the best candidates to serve in the United States Government.

Akerman believed this was the original intent of the framers of the U. S. Constitution.

Gen. Akerman was well aware of the wide spread violent tactics known as " outrages " of the Ku Klux Klan primarily against African American voters.

Gen. Akerman was ready to federally prosecute the Klan.

After Grant had suspended habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties on October 17, 1871 Akerman, who was in the state, personally led U. S. Marshals and the U. S. Army into the country side and made hundreds of arrests, while 2000 Klansmen fled the state.

During December, while Akerman was busy prosecuting the Klan he was unexpectantly asked to resign by President Grant.

Akerman argued that the old laws originating from slavery in the South did not apply anymore since the Reconstruction Act of 1867 stated that Georgia had no civilian government.

* William S. McFeely, " Amos T. Akerman: The Lawyer and Racial Justice ," in Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, ed.

Gen. Bristow and U. S. Attorney General Amos Akerman prosecuted thousands of Klan's men that resulted in a brief two year quiet period during the turbulent Reconstruction Era in the South.

The case went to the Georgia's Supreme Court where Akerman defended White's election and his color did not deny him the right to hold office.

Akerman argued that blacks had participated in the Georgia's new constitutional government in 1868 without distinction of color.

Akerman, upon President Grant's appointment as his U. S. Attorney General, vigorously prosecuted the Klan in the South under the Enforcement Acts.

Akerman also ruled on the United States first federal Civil Service Reform law implemented by President Grant and the U. S. Congress.

In 1869 President Grant appointed Akerman as U. S. Attorney in Georgia.

Akerman argued that both President Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant had appointed black men to public office and that the current U. S. Constitution did not recognize a person's color.

Akerman also ruled that the competitive testing need not be overly restrictive as to take away the appointment powers given to the President and Congress under the U. S. Constitution.