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87th Pennsylvania Infantry
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Company A
Private
Found this information on Find A Grave's website. This was my 2X or 3X great grandfather
Company B
Private
Liborius 'Levi' Gastrock was my great-great-grandfather, born in Prussia abt 1824. He arrived in Pennsylvania in 1855. He married Anna Maria 'Mary' Blocher. He got sick during the war, and remained sick for the rest of his life. He died in Pennsylvania 25 Sept 1886.
Company E
Private
Enlisted 4/2/62
Company E
Corporal
No family notes have been added.
Company E
1st Lieutenant
Alexander was my great grandfather.
Company F
Sergeant
Enlisted as a Private on 25 September 1861 at the age of 20.
Promoted to Corporal.
Promoted to Sergeant.
Mustered out on 29 June 1865 at Alexandria, VA.
Company F
Private
No family notes have been added.
Company G
Private
No family notes have been added.
Company I
Private
Henry enrolled on March 6, 1865. He was injured at Cedar Creek Virginia in April 1865 and was honorably discharged on June 29, 1865.
Company I
Captain
Enrolled At Harrisburg, PA on 3/16/1865. Absent at Muster out. Sick since 6/17/1865.
Company I
Private
On April 4th, Private Henry D Ruth died at the hospital in City Point, Virginia (Grant’s HQ) from wounds received in action two days earlier at the Third Battle of Petersburg. Henry had been a soldier in the Army of the Potomic for 22 days.