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Oliver A. Horner

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Name: Oliver A. Horner

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Emmitsburg, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/27/1861

Company: C

Rank at End of Service: Major

Notes:

Reenlisted with same company on 1/26/1864. Mustered out on 6/28/1865. Born in Pennsylvania.


Source(s):

Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; James A. Helman, History of Emmitsburg, Maryland (Frederick, MD: Citizen Press, 1906), 108; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 314.

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