Verein). In 1867, he sat on the jury in the trial of John Surratt, who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln. In 1877, Gerhardt received a position as a clerk in the United States Department of the Interior. He spent most of his post-war years in ill health due to his wartime service. By 1880, his health had deteriorated so much that he gave up his job at the Interior Department and sold his restaurant business. Joseph Gerhardt died of unspecified causes at his home in Washington, D.C., on August 19, 1881. He was survived by his wife and seven children. The Washington Saengerbund sang at his funeral. He was buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C., and the artillery unit of the District of Columbia militia fired an 11-gun salute over his grave. Brigadier General Gerhardt's son was Joe Gerhardt, one of the best second basemen of his era in Major League Baseball. References Bibliography Politicians from Bonn People of Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War Prussian emigrants to the United States German-American Forty-Eighters Union Army colonels 1817 births 1881 deaths Burials at Prospect Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)