Belgian Civil War soldiers in michigan |
Joseph DE SCHRAIVES |
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Comp. E, 2nd Michigan Volunteers Infantry |
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enlisted in Co. E 2nd Michigan Infantry on March 23, 1864 at Detroit for 3 years; mustered March 24, 1864; joined regiment May 23, 1864. | |
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Discharged by order War Department at Detroit, Mich. June 15, 1865. | |
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age 44 | |
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Biography :
Joseph De Schraives
The Ohio Home files list him as 62th years old when admitted in 1867 and living
in Detroit, Michigan. He state being a widower and a sailor by occupation. Like
for Joseph Bogart (see Northwestern Home), this age is also very intriguing. No
trace of a Joseph De Schraives or De Schriver from Belgium of such an age. But,
if we state rather the age given when enlisting in the 2nd Michigan is the right
one, I find trace of a Joseph De Schriver having enlisted as a private in the
United States Marines stationed on the U.S.S. Michigan[2]
on August 13, 1847. He reenlisted as an Orderly Sergeant at the same place
in June 1851. The 1850 census of the town of Erié, Pennsylvania list him as
Joseph Desever, 27 y.o., Marine U.S. Navy, born Belgium.
In 1861 at the first calls of President Lincoln for three months volunteers, a regiment was raised in Erié on April 21. Joseph Deschryver enlisted as First Sergeant, Co B. The Regiment was disbanded after the three months, without having seen the war but with a lot of drill done.
Transferred to the Milwaukee Home in February 1868, he was expelled in August of the same year, motive: "too lazy to work". Back in the Ohio home in March 1869, suffering from general debility and old age he was transferred in 1871 to the Government Insane Asylum.
Sources :
Central Branch of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton, Ohio