CAPT, Co I, 19th OH Inf......Enlisted in Company I, Ohio 19th Infantry Regiment on 30 Sep 1861. Promoted to Full Sergeant on 20 Mar 1862. Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 02 Dec 1862. Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on 22 Jul 1862.
Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 27 May 1863. Promoted to Full Captain on 21 Dec 1864. Mustered out on 24 Oct 1865.

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"THE MUSCATINE JOURNAL", Muscatine, Iowa, October 31, 1903, page 1
DEATH WAS VERY SUDDEN------ Community Shocked to hear of Sudden Death of City Recorder A. K. Raff, at the City Hall.----- HEART FAILURE GIVEN AS ..CAUSE OF DISSOLUTION-------- ...Feeling Ill During Previous..but His Illness Was Not Thought Serious-End Was Painless and Instantaneous, so Physicians Believe-Deceased Was Well Known and Served Useful Life.-------- This community was shocked yesterday morning, when word was heard upon the street that City Recorder A. K. Raff had suddenly expired while seated at his desk at the City Hall, death coming to him without warning. Mr. Raff was at the council meeting...night and was then apparently in his usual health.Upon going to the city Hall yesterday morning he complained of not having been able to sleep during the greater part of the night previous, stating that he sat up much of the time. While conversing with Police Judge J. B. Hudson his head suddenly fell forward on the desk.------- Physician Summoned.------- Mr. Hudson saw at once that something was the matter and hurried...physician. On the steps he.George and asked him to go to A. K.'s assistance, while he hurried ..T. F. Beberidge. ...physician had arrived, life...fact, after an examination the physician declared that death was spontaneous. Tender hands ..to a conveyance and la..family home on West Sixth street where the stricken wife and daughter ..ited the sad home-coming. ...shock it was to those who had witnessed his departure from home a short time before.------ Well Known Resident----- A K. Raff was widely known throughout this section. His form had been a ... one upon our street for many years. He was respected and liked by all who knew him.................. affabiliby were infectious, his presence compaionable and his friendship much sought after. He never spoke ill of anyone and his life was filled with daily kind deeds and words performed for all with whom he came in contact.------ Honored Many Times--------- Few men in this city or county were honored as was this splendid man. His membership in Shelby Norman Post was considered an honor to the organization and he had filled with credit to himself and the post all the offices within the gift of the members, this including the service of two years as commander of that body. The board of education of this city honored him for many yers by his election to the office of secretary, a position he filled with rare ability. He also held several other positions of trust, in all of which he won the confidence of all with whom he had to deal. Mr. Raff was a member of the First Baptist church of this city for many years, being a deacon at the time of his death, and was the efficient secretary of the Sunday school of that denomination. He was much in public life since 1891, being that year a candidate of the then minority party for county treasurer, the nomination testifying the implicit confidence reposed in him. Last year he was selected by the city council to accept the vacancy in the city recordership, a position he has admirably filled and the work of which he was performing when death came suddenly to him.----- Obituary.--------- Captain A. K. Raff was born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1842, and receiving a splendid education in the schools there, became after a time a skilled machinist. The breaking out of the civil war changed his plans and, dropping the trade to which he had given much attention, he enlisted in the Nineeenth Ohio Infantry and saw four years service in defense of the union. His record as a soldier was one of which to be proud and honors and promotions came to him for meritorious conduct in the service. Immediately following the war his parents came to live in Davenport and in that city the returned soldier entered the employ of Raff, Cock & Co., and continued with them until 1871, when he came to this city and engaged in business, forming a partnership with W. W. Church under the firm name of Church and Raff. The firm dealt in agricultural implements and prospered, the same being later changed to Raff & Borger, and later Mr. Raff conducted the business alone. In 1871, Mr. Raff was united in marriage to Miss Ella Sanders, of Davenport, and to them have been born three children, two of whom, Fred, of Chicago and Miss Edith, at ...-------Submitter's Note: Parts of the newspaper article have crumbled away and I replaced the missing text with (..).