Soldier:  Simon Van Horn

Regiment: 180^th. OVI                            

Company:  H

Age:  25                                               

Date Entering Service:  Sept. 12, 1864

Period of Service:  10 months

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Discharged on July 12, 1865 at Charlotte, North Carolina.

Battles in which he fought;

This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio in 9/10/1864 to serve one year.  It left Camp on the 15th of October for Nashville, Tennessee and from Nashville was ordered to Decherd, Tennessee. The Regiment remained in Decherd for most part of three months and was used as guard to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroads. On 1/6/1865, the Regiment was ordered to Nashville after remaining there a few days was ordered to guard a train of wagons bound to East Port, Mississippi. It went as far as the Columbia where it was met by an order to return to Nashville, and from there was ordered to Washington City. The Regiment reached Washington City on 1/31/1865 and was placed in Camp Stoneman near that City. After remaining there for three weeks in Camp it ws ordered to Fort Fisher. On reaching the mouth of Cape Fear River, the fall of Fort Fisher was announced, rendering its service unnecessary. The Regiment was then taken to Newbern where it joined a force under General J D Cox to open railway communication with Goldsboro and General Sherman’s Army at Kinston, North Carolina on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of March.  The Regiment had an engagement with forces under General Bragg and Hoke in which the Regiment lost a number killed or wounded. From Kinston the Regiment marched to Goldsboro which place it reached on March, 21st. It remained there until April 9th and then marched with Sherman’s Army to Raleigh, North Carolina where it performed garrison duty until the surrender of Johnston’s Army. The Regiment then moved to Greensboro, ad from there to Charlotte where it remained as the city garrison until 7/12/1865 when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department.

(Taken from the Official Roster of Soldiers)

Other interesting information discovered:

Simon Van Horn was born in 1838 in Ohio.  He lived with his mother, Catharine in Cardington and was employed as a plasterer.  In 1870 Census Simon is listed as living with his brother Solomon who served in Ohio 113th Infantry.  His mother Catharine received his pension on June 7, 1889.

Date of Death:  May 15, 1882                 Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Village of Cardington                                            Researcher:  Velda L. Montgomery