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After the Civil War Angel Island became a major recruit-processing center for the army.  Not until 1881 did the army have anything like modern day boot camps, and soldiers were expected to learn their duties on the job.   All that recruits of the period could expect from a depot like Angel Island was to be issued uniforms and be taught a few basic parade-ground formations.  As the units Angel Island supplied with reinforcements were scattered across the western states, recruits would sometimes wait for weeks before transport could be arranged for them to join their regiments. During this time, a few recruits who appeared responsible were made "lance corporals" or "lance sergeants" and charged with keeping the other recruits in line.  A lance corporal or sergeant received no additional pay and his rank reverted to that of a private as soon as he joined a regiment, but lance duty singled him out as a canidate for future promotion.  Roshore was made a lance sergeant and assigned to the 14th Infantry, but his promising army career ended when he died before he ever had a chance to join his unit.

The 14th Infantry Regiment was created at the outbreak of the Civil War (there had previously been 14th Infantry Regiments in the War of 1812 and Mexican War, but neither lasted much past the conflicts for which they were formed).  After serving in the eastern theater throughout the Civil War, the 14th Infantry sailed to California in the summer of 1865 and saw duty on the Pacific Coast and far west until 1869 when the regiment was transferred to Nashville, Tennessee.  Only one other member of the 14th Infantry, Thomas Gordon (E310), was interred on Angel Island.

In April of 2004 the  US Department of Veteran's Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator recorded his name as "Frederick H Roshorf" while a record in the National Archives may also name him as "Frederick H Roshun."  Date of death may also have been 7/28/1867.