{"id":10863,"date":"2015-06-18T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:40:20","slug":"1869-medal-of-honor-recipient-getting-new-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/1869-medal-of-honor-recipient-getting-new-burial.html","title":{"rendered":"1869 Medal of Honor Recipient Getting New Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Schroeter received the Medal of Honor for \u201cGallantry in action\u201d during a fight with Apache Indians in Arizona\u2019s Chiricahua Mountains in 1869.<\/p>\n

Despite this recognition, no one claimed the old soldier\u2019s ashes when he was cremated following his death in January 1920. His ashes lay in an unmarked crypt in San Diego for nearly a century until his story finally came to light. In July, Schroeter will be buried at Miramar National Cemetery with full military honors.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Documents, \u201cGeneral Staff Corps and Medals of Honor.\u201d Serial Set, Vol. No. 7609, Report Senate Document 58 (Washington, D.C.), 23 July 1919<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is one of those very unusual cases where the person\u2019s death occurred decades ago \u2013 but because of his modern reburial, his obituary is included in GenealogyBank\u2019s Recent Obituaries<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n

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San Diego Union-Tribune (San Diego, California) 30 May 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charles Schroeter had served in the Civil War in the U.S. Cavalry, 1st Division. According to his obituary:<\/p>\n

After the Civil War ended, Schroeter enlisted again, this time in the newly formed 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment. He headed west, to Arizona, to fight in the Indian Wars and protect American settlers and their wagon trains. It was the 1869 Campaign of the Rocky Mesa that resulted in his Medal of Honor. Schroeter and other troopers were dispatched to respond to an Apache attack. At the end of the deadly battle in Arizona\u2019s Chiricahua Mountains, 32 cavalrymen were nominated for the top combat medal.<\/p>\n

Throughout history, 3,493 Medals of Honor have been awarded. Of those, [Don] Morfe estimated there are still about 200 \u2018lost souls\u2019 whose grave sites are unknown \u2014 like Schroeter\u2019s was until recently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Charles Schroeter received the Medal of Honor for \u201cGallantry in action\u201d during a fight with Apache Indians in Arizona\u2019s Chiricahua Mountains in 1869. Despite this recognition, no one claimed the old soldier\u2019s ashes when he was cremated following his death in January 1920. His ashes lay in an unmarked crypt in San Diego for nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}