Civil War: Company E, 4th United States Infantry
Eduard Roecker (Röcker) was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (Germany), in 1836, and trained as a pharmacist. He later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a druggist at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eduard (Edward), then 21, enlisted as a private for 5 years in the Regular Army of the United States on October 10, 1857, and was mustered into Company 4, 4th United States Infantry.
While posted at Fort Yuma, California, Private Roecker died in the post hospital July 23, 1861. His name appears as "Edward Rocker (sic), Company E, 4th California (sic) Infantry" buried at Fort Yuma in the Roll of Honor (Volume XII, page 169).
When the remains of 159 soldiers buried in the Fort Yuma post cemetery were transferred to San Francisco National Cemetery in the 1890's, his remains again were mis-identified, now as Edward Roker (sic), although with the correct company and regiment.
(Biographic information courtesy Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War)
159 bodies were moved from Ft Yuma to the Presidio.
Eduard Roecker (Röcker) was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (Germany), in 1836, and trained as a pharmacist. He later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a druggist at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eduard (Edward), then 21, enlisted as a private for 5 years in the Regular Army of the United States on October 10, 1857, and was mustered into Company 4, 4th United States Infantry.
While posted at Fort Yuma, California, Private Roecker died in the post hospital July 23, 1861. His name appears as "Edward Rocker (sic), Company E, 4th California (sic) Infantry" buried at Fort Yuma in the Roll of Honor (Volume XII, page 169).
When the remains of 159 soldiers buried in the Fort Yuma post cemetery were transferred to San Francisco National Cemetery in the 1890's, his remains again were mis-identified, now as Edward Roker (sic), although with the correct company and regiment.
(Biographic information courtesy Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War)
159 bodies were moved from Ft Yuma to the Presidio.
Civil War: Company E, 4th United States Infantry
Eduard Roecker (Röcker) was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (Germany), in 1836, and trained as a pharmacist. He later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a druggist at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eduard (Edward), then 21, enlisted as a private for 5 years in the Regular Army of the United States on October 10, 1857, and was mustered into Company 4, 4th United States Infantry.
While posted at Fort Yuma, California, Private Roecker died in the post hospital July 23, 1861. His name appears as "Edward Rocker (sic), Company E, 4th California (sic) Infantry" buried at Fort Yuma in the Roll of Honor (Volume XII, page 169).
When the remains of 159 soldiers buried in the Fort Yuma post cemetery were transferred to San Francisco National Cemetery in the 1890's, his remains again were mis-identified, now as Edward Roker (sic), although with the correct company and regiment.
(Biographic information courtesy Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War)
159 bodies were moved from Ft Yuma to the Presidio.
Eduard Roecker (Röcker) was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (Germany), in 1836, and trained as a pharmacist. He later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a druggist at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eduard (Edward), then 21, enlisted as a private for 5 years in the Regular Army of the United States on October 10, 1857, and was mustered into Company 4, 4th United States Infantry.
While posted at Fort Yuma, California, Private Roecker died in the post hospital July 23, 1861. His name appears as "Edward Rocker (sic), Company E, 4th California (sic) Infantry" buried at Fort Yuma in the Roll of Honor (Volume XII, page 169).
When the remains of 159 soldiers buried in the Fort Yuma post cemetery were transferred to San Francisco National Cemetery in the 1890's, his remains again were mis-identified, now as Edward Roker (sic), although with the correct company and regiment.
(Biographic information courtesy Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War)
159 bodies were moved from Ft Yuma to the Presidio.
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