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§  Edward J. Roegiers : enlisted the first time on 30 August 1855, a tailor from Ghent, age 27, in Newport Kentucky in the 5th Rifle, Co. K. He reenlisted at the same place on November 29, 1860 in the General Service but deserted on April 22, 1861 at St Louis Arsenal, Missouri. A week later, to check the Confederate attempt to ship weapons to the South, General Nathaniel Lyon seized the arsenal and sent them to Illinois. Curiously, an Edward Rogiers enlisted April 26, 1861 in Memphis as Sergeant in the 1st Regular Battery, Confederate Light Artillery (Semmes’, Barnes’) and was paroled in New Orleans July 6th, 1865. No trace of him in the following censuses.

§  Desiré Vereecken 21 y. o. from Arlonsall(?), a cooper, enlisted 1 April 1861 in General Service in Chicago
He deserted August 20, 1861 from Newport Barracks, Kentucky. No Vereecken in the censuses. The only trace of such a name is with arrival in New York, 14 December 1855 of the Henry Reed with on board Willehold Vereken, 39 y. o. and Desiré Vereken, 17 y. o., brewers.

§  Bernard Schuman,   21 y. o. from Luxemburg, Belgium, a tailor enlisted on 9 July 1862 in Detroit Michigan in the General Service and deserted the 24th of the same month. No further records.

§  Charles De Cuyper  was born in Malines around 1828. He emigrated in 1855, arriving in New York, passenger of the Anna F Schmidt, on February 14, 1855, a merchant. He enlisted in Washington D.C. on December 3, 1862. A clerk in the Adjutant General's Office, he deserted on October 28, 1865. Pardoned on condition that he serves out faithfully the remainder of his term of enlistment, he reenlisted on november 4, 1865 in Philadelphia in the thirds Cavalry. Discharged at expiration of service at Fort Union, New Mexico on November 4, 1868, a Commissary Sergeant, he reenlisted at once. He received his last discharge on August 10, 1870 at Camp Wallcot, Arizona, the result, it seems, of a gun shot wound in leg. He remained in California,settling in Santa Anita, near Los Angeles. When he ha was admitted in the Soldier's home in Sawtelle, Los Angeles County in December 22, 1892, he gave as his nearest relative the name of his brother, Florand De Cuyper, still living in Malines Belgium. The same papers precise he died on December 3(or 6), 1903 and was buried in Paris, France.