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Jacob Grosh: 7^th Illinois Infantry, Co. H; enrolled at Lincoln, enlisted July 25, 1861, mustered July 25, 1861; reenlisted as veteran Dec. 22, 1862; mustered out July 9, 1865. The only Grosh I find around Milwaukee are all from Germany and nowhere I find a Jacob Grosh. He was admitted to the Home on July 22, 1879. He was 56 y.o., a laborer. A single without relatives and suffering of flesh wound right arm and chronic rheumatism. He died at the Home Hospital on April 30, 1891 from pneumonia, result of "la grippe". He is buried in the Home cemetery Block 1 Row 2.  

More is know from where and when he was wounded from the Regiment History: "March 20th (1865). We advance early this morning. The Seventh are soon deployed on the skirmish line, and are soon skirmishing, for on such occasions the Seventh with their sixteen-shooters are always called upon. The Fifteenth Corps gaining position, we commence throwing up breastworks within cannon range of the enemy's works. By 4 o'clock P. M. Johnson finds himself confronted with a complete and strong line of battle. March 21st. This morning the armies are menacing each other face to face, each remaining behind their works. The design of Sherman is to hold him there until Schofield and Terry can advance from Kingston, North Carolina. Skirmishing has been going on all day. In the evening the Seventh is ordered forward on the skirmish line, and moving forward under the command of Major Johnson, into a creek bottom, we provoked a fierce fire from the enemy stationed on the opposite side. In this encounter Privates Jacob Groch and Gotleib Burkliardt, of Company H, were wounded. Other noble men were also wounded, but we have been unable to obtain their names."

Sources :
Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois volunteer infantry  from its first muster into the U.S. service, April 25, 1861, to its final muster out, July 9, 1865. By D. Leib Ambrose.
 

Pension file
date of filing	class	application	certificate	Filed in
1880 June 31	Invalid	343666	280026