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


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