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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Horn

(1834 - 1921)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 12 June 1861 in Hazleton and mustered in Philadelphia on 28 June as a Private in Company A, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the neck and wrist in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 19 February 1863 for disability from wounds.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a blacksmith at Hazleton in Luzerne County, PA. He had retired by 1910 and lived with his son James and family in West Hazleton to at least 1920.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Klinger (1842-1920) in 1866 and they had 6 children.

Birth

12/21/1834 in PA

Death

05/24/1921; West Hazleton, PA; burial in Mountain View Cemetery, West Hazleton, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11436]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31059]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 253 [AotW citation 31060]

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