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Federal (USV)

Private

Horace Seymour Torrance

(1844 - 1933)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old in Brandon, Oakland County, MI. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted there in Company H, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 7 August 1861. He transferred to Company G, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to the regiment in January 1863 but was discharged for disability at Philadelphia on 19 January 1863.

After the War

He lived in Oregon Township, MI about 1905.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of Michigan,1 as Horace S Torrence. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/24/1844 in NY

Death

01/20/1933; Montrose, MI; burial in Montrose Cemetery, Montrose, MI

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 96 - 104 [AotW citation 12130]

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