87th Ohio Infantry Regiment

The 87th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio and mustered in on June 10, 1862, for three months service under Colonel Henry Blackstone Banning.{{sfnmp|Dyer|1908|1p=1526|Federal Publishing Company|1908|2p=410|Ohio Roster Commission|1888|3p=3|Reid|1868|4p=490}}

The regiment left Ohio for Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, and performed duty in the defenses of that city until July 28. It was later attached to Railroad Brigade, VIII Corps, Middle Department. It was ordered to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia on July 28, and attached to Miles' Command. It had garrison duty in the defenses of Bolivar Heights until September. It fought in skirmishes at Berlin [now Brunswick] and Point of Rocks, Maryland, September 4–5 (detachment).{{sfn|Carman|2010|p=287}} It defended Harpers Ferry from September 12 to 15. It was at the surrender of Harpers Ferry on September 15. It was paroled on September 16 and sent to Annapolis, Maryland.

The 87th Ohio mustered out of the service at Camp Chase on September 20, 1862.{{sfnmp|Dyer|1908|1p=1526|Federal Publishing Company|1908|2p=410|Ohio Roster Commission|1888|3p=3|Reid|1868|4p=490}}

The regiment lost a total of 6 enlisted men, 1 killed and 5 due to disease.

• Colonel Henry B. Banning{{sfnmp|Federal Publishing Company|1908|1p=410|Ohio Roster Commission|1888|2p=3|Reid|1868|3p=490}}

• Colonel Henry B. Banning - U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1873–1879{{sfnmp|Federal Publishing Company|1908|1p=410|Ohio Roster Commission|1888|2p=3|Reid|1868|3p=490}}
• Corporal William Wellington Corlett, Company D - delegate from Wyoming Territory, 1877–1879
• Commissary Sergeant John Philo Hoyt - fourth governor of Arizona Territory, 1877–1878; justice of the Washington Territory Supreme Court, 1879–1887; President of the Washington Constitutional Convention, 1889{{sfnp|Ohio Roster Commission|1888|p=3}}

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• {{cite book |last=Carman |first=Ezra Ayers |author-link=Ezra A. Carman |editor-last=Clemens |editor-first=Thomas G. |title=South Mountain |series=The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 |publisher=Savas Beatie |location=El Dorado Hills, CA |volume=I |edition=1st |date=2010 |page=287 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgsgmQEACAAJ |access-date=October 10, 2024 |url-access=subscription |isbn=978-1-932714-81-4 |oclc=642346387 |lccn=2010481380}}
• {{cite book |last=Dyer |first=Frederick Henry |author-link=Frederick H. Dyer |title=A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion |publisher=Dyer Pub. Co. |place=Des Moines, IA |date=1908 |oclc=8697590 |lccn=09005239 |url=https://archive.org/details/08697590.3359.emory.edu/page/1526/mode/2up |language=en |format=PDF |access-date=August 8, 2015 |pages=1526 |asin=B01BUFJ76Q |url-access=registration}}{{PD-notice}}
• {{cite book |author=Federal Publishing Company |title=Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of New York, Maryland, West Virginia, And Ohio |publisher=Federal Publishing Company |series=The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 – Records of the Regiments in the Union army – Cyclopedia of battles – Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. |volume=II |date=1908 |location=Madison, WI |url=https://archive.org/details/unionarmyhistory02madi/page/410/mode/1up |oclc=1086145633 |format=PDF |pages=410 |access-date=October 10, 2024}}{{PD-notice}}
• {{cite book |author=Ohio Roster Commission |title=87th–108th Regiments, Etc. |publisher=The Werner Company |series=Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865 |volume=VII |date=1888 |location=Akron, OH |pages=3–31 |hdl=2027/uiug.30112047586034?urlappend=%3Bseq=17%3Bownerid=13510798903548607-21 |oclc=633556 }}
• {{cite book |last=Reid |first=Whitelaw |author-link=Whitelaw Reid |title=The History of Her Regiments, and Other Military Organizations |publisher=Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin |series=Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers |volume=II |date=1868 |location=Cincinnati, OH |pages=155–159 |url=https://archive.org/details/00444862.3383.emory.edu/page/155/mode/2up |oclc=11632330 |lccn=02015300 |access-date=October 10, 2024}}

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• [http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw87.html Ohio in the Civil War: 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229063420/http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/exhibits/fftc/relicroom/details.aspx?war=2&flagid=445&unitid=174&warname=Civil%20War National flag of the 87th Ohio Infantry]

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