87th Ohio Infantry

The 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 87th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
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.

The regiment left Ohio for Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, and performed duty in the defenses of that city until July 28. Attached to Railroad Brigade, VIII Corps, Middle Department. Ordered to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, July 28, and attached to Miles' Command. Garrison duty in the defenses of Bolivar Heights until September. Skirmishes at Berlin [now Brunswick] and Point of Rocks, Maryland, September 4–5 (detachment). Defense of Harpers Ferry September 12–15. Surrender of Harpers Ferry September 15. Paroled September 16 and sent to Annapolis, Maryland.

The 87th Ohio mustered out of the service at Camp Chase on September 20, 1862.

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

Commanders

 * Colonel Henry Blackstone Banning

Notable members

 * Colonel Henry Blackstone Banning - U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1873–1879
 * 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