History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . an soldier in the Spanish war. General Cluseret died in Toulon, France, August 23, 1900,after having served twelve years as a member of the Chamber ofDeputies, the lower House of Congress in his native country. In January the regiment organized a military band. The fol-lowing named enlisted men were detailed from different com-panies to play the instruments: James McGuire, Benjamin Ty-son, Philip M. Shive, Joshua Happold, William Howe, GeorgeYin
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . an soldier in the Spanish war. General Cluseret died in Toulon, France, August 23, 1900,after having served twelve years as a member of the Chamber ofDeputies, the lower House of Congress in his native country. In January the regiment organized a military band. The fol-lowing named enlisted men were detailed from different com-panies to play the instruments: James McGuire, Benjamin Ty-son, Philip M. Shive, Joshua Happold, William Howe, GeorgeYingling, John Hunter, Henry C. Pentz, N. Z. Seitz, FrankBarnhart, William Everhart, Silas C. Yingling, John Dunn,Gibson Johns and John Shaffer. The first leader was John Diener, who trained the band toplay a number of selections. He took sick and returned to titshome at Hanover, Pa., where he died in March 1863. Captain George Ellinger, a musician of fine talent from Lan-caster, Pa., was chosen leader. He was paid by voluntarycontributions from the commissioned officers of the regiment,who also raised most of the monev to buv the instruments. The.
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