This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stroup, Stevens, Van Horn, Hutton; Gottschalk, Michel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0IQBAEB/297 Message Board Post: Looking for info on Civil War veterans named Stroup who served with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. 1) Stroup, John, Pvt Co H; mustered Jul 11, 1864, as a substitute; discharged Jun 29, 1865; born Aug 20, 1844, the son of Henry & Lucy Stroup; died Dec 1926 (not certain); a laborer from Williamsport, Lycoming County; 5' 8", auburn hair, blue eyes; shot in the lower jaw and right thigh at the 3rd battle of Winchester; married Elizabeth Stevens October 5, 1880; children: Chester (who disappeared with his father), Clora Bell (b. 10/10/81), Amanda Frances (b. 11/01/83), and Anne Blanche. (b. 05/15/95 - married a Van Horn); an abusive, alcholic man who deserted his wife and went to Indianapolis, Indiana; near the end of his life, was declared incompetent and lived at the Hospital for the Insane in Danville, Pennsylvania; buried in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania 2) Stroup, Joseph "Stumpy", Pvt Co A; mustered Sep 11, 1861; discharged Oct 13, 1864; born @1840/41; died Jan 9, 1878; a baker and wharf builder from York; "… he was not over five feet tall... chunky... he could talk good English but he showed the Dutch in him"; assigned as brigade baker in early 1863; sick in the hospital from after the 2nd battle of Winchester until his discharge; served one year in the commissary department in Patterson Park, Maryland, after the war; son of Francis Stroup; married Mary R. Hutton May 11, 1865, in Baltimore, Maryland; daughter: Cecelia (married Conrad Michel); Mary remarried Conrad Gottschalk in 1883; died in Baltimore, Maryland