The 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio on June 10, 1862. Including recruits from nearly all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, this regiment was to serve for a period of three months.
The 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio on June 10, 1862. Including recruits from nearly all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, this regiment was to serve for a period of three months.
Despite the regiment's short term of service, it did see military action in the American Civil War. On June 12, 1862, the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry received orders to report to Baltimore, Maryland. The regiment arrived in Baltimore on June 15, 1862, and spent the next several weeks in a camp north of the city, receiving military training under Colonel Henry B. Banning, the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry's commanding officer.
In late July 1862, the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry reported for duty at Harper's Ferry, Virginia to defend this city from an anticipated Confederate attack. Stationed on Bolivar Heights, overlooking the city, Confederate forces under Thomas Jonathan Jackson captured Harper's Ferry and the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in late August and early September 1862. Confederate officials paroled the Northern soldiers, and after a brief stay in Annapolis, Maryland, the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry returned to Camp Chase in Columbus, where the regiment was mustered out of service between October 1 and 4, 1862, due to the termination of its three months of service.
87th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Ohioans Who Served:
|
Rank |
Name |
Date of Rank |
Commission Issued |
|
Colonel |
Henry B. Banning |
June 27, 1862 |
June 25, 1862 |
|
Lt. Colonel |
John Faskin |
June 17, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
Major |
Samuel L. Leffingwell |
June 26, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Surgeon |
Robert N. Barr |
June 23, 1862 |
June 23, 1862 |
|
Asst. Surgeon |
Orlando C. Miller |
June 23, 1862 |
June 23, 1862 |
|
Chaplain |
George D. Oviatt |
June 30, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Henry H. Otis |
June 10, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Charles Calkins |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
Captain |
John L. Straughn |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Samuel Huber |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
Captain |
David H. Moore |
June 9, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Edward K. Allen |
June 10, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
John F. Herrick |
June 11, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Jacob L. McVey |
June 12, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Vernum Ganson |
June 25, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
Captain |
Thomas F. Cooper |
June 25, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
William T. Johnson |
June 10, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Thomas J. McDowell |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Robert Shearer |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Philip Ford |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Edward S. Aleshire |
June 9, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Andrew D. McClure |
June 10, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
George W. Pease |
June 11, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
William A. Gage |
June 12, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
John S. Orr |
June 13, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
George W. Branham |
June 25, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
Jacob L'Hommedieu |
June 23, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
1st Lieutenant |
A. Bailes Carter |
June 23, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
James H. Landis |
June 10, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
George W. Johnson |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Daniel Wilson |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Christopher Keary |
June 12, 1862 |
June 17, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Josiah H. Jenkins |
June 9, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Paulding B. Silvis |
June 10, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Wallace A. Pinney |
June 11, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
James Evans |
June 12, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Martin H. Hamblin |
June 13, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
|
2nd Lieutenant |
Charles Mitchiner, Jr. |
June 25, 1862 |
June 30, 1862 |
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