William Fager Horn

In 1860 he was a 20 year old day laborer in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted there on 20 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry (he may have served previously in Company C, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, a 3-month regiment, in April 1861).

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest, probably in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October, transferred to Camp A, and was discharged there on a Surgeon's Certificate on 22 or 23 December 1862. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in March 1863.

By 1880 he was a mine superintendent in Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County. In 1900 he was a justice of the peace in Brandonville, PA. In 1920 he was a notary public there and by 1930, then 90 years old, had finally retired and lived with his daughter Bessie (van Horn) and her family in Ringtown. He died there at age 95 in 1935.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as a Sergeant, and also as William Hann. Personal details from family genealogists, his pension card via fold3, and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret Van Horn (1842-1890) in 1863 and they had 5 children.

03/10/1840; Pine Grove, PA

12/24/1935; Ringtown, PA; burial in Methodist Cemetery, Ringtown, PA