Van Horn, Soloman
Soldier: Solomon Van Horn
Regiment: 113th. OVI
Company: B
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: Feb 18, 1864
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Sustained a head wound. Discharged July 6, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky
Battles in which he fought:
Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia May 5-9,1864
Resaca, Georgia May 13-16, 1864
Dallas, Georgia May 25-June 4, 1864
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia June9-30, 1864
Peachtree Creek, Georgia July 7-20, 1864
Jonesboro, Georgia August 31-Sept. 1, 1864
Siege of Savannah, Georgia Dec 10-21, 1864
Averysville, North Carolina March 16, 1865
Bentonville, North Carolina March 19-2, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Solomon Van Horn was born in 1846 in Ohio. He was a laborer in the Village of Cardington and lived with his mother, Catherine and his brother Simon, who served in the Ohio 180th Regiment. He filed for an invalid pension on April 221890. In 1910 he was listed as living in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio. The records reveal that he was employed at one time as a butcher.
Report from National Home: Old fracture of nose, loss of teeth, shell wound of head, “upper occipital region” (back of skull). Solomon Van Horn took his own life.
Date of Death: January 1, 1912 Place of burial: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH
Adopted By: Village of Cardington Researcher: Velda L. Montgomery