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1862 – 1865
The 87th was organized at South Bend on 28 August 1862 and mustered at Indianapolis three days later: It went out under Colonel Kline G. Shryock, with Company K and one or two other companies from this county. Its first battle was Perryville (8 October 1862). At Chickamauga, 19–20 September 1863, the regiment lost 40 killed, 142 wounded and 8 missing — more than half of all the officers and men engaged. It fought again at Mission Ridge on 25 November 1863 in the front line of its brigade, losing sixteen killed and wounded, and through the Atlanta campaign — Rocky Face, Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, Kennesaw, Peach Tree Creek, Utoy Creek (4 August 1864; seventeen killed and wounded) and Jonesboro — then the March to the Sea, the Carolinas campaign, and the Grand Review at Washington, mustering out there on 10 June 1865. Shryock resigned on 28 March 1863; Lieutenant Colonel Newell Gleason succeeded him and was brevetted brigadier general. Chapman's county accounting for the 87th's county companies stands beside the regimental figures: 4 killed, 5 died of wounds, 1 died in Andersonville prison, 10 died of disease — twenty of this county's men. Two of the Roll of Honor's officers fell with the regiment on the same Chickamauga day: Lieutenant Seth B. Parker and Lieutenant William H. Criswell, both killed 19 September 1863, and Captain James M. Holliday with them.
Sources:
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), ch. VII — the organization at South Bend, the Chickamauga and campaign figures, Gleason's succession and brevet, and the county companies' loss of twenty.
- Chapman, Roll of Honor — Parker, Criswell and Holliday, all of Chickamauga, 19 September 1863.