The Official Service Record and the 1864 Roster of Cole’s Cavalry Company "C"

Transcribed by John Allen Miller

1st Regiment Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry service record

Original Company organization at the time of mustering in to U.S. service 1861:

• Company "A", Captain Henry Cole
• Company "B" Captain William Furey
• Company "C" Captain John Horner (Keystone Rangers)
• Company "D" Captain Pierce K. Keirl

All independent Cavalry Companies were organized at Frederick, Md. on August 10 to November 27, 1861. The1st Regiment Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry served unattached to the Department of (West) Virginia, until to January 1862 when assigned to Lander's Division, of the Army of the Potomac, to March 1862 (Cos. "A," "C" and "D").

Company B unattached to Department of West Virginia, to August 1862 where it was reassigned to Hatch's Cavalry Brigade, General Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Department of the Shenandoah to June 1862. Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Corps, General Pope's Army of Virginia, to August, 1862, and participated in the following service:

South Branch Bridge, W. Va., October 26, 1861 (Co. "B") Hancock, Md., January 5 - 6, 1862 (Cos. "A," "C" and "D") Bloomery Gap February 14. Advance on Winchester March 2 - 12. Martinsburg on March 3. Bunker Hill March 5 (Co. "A"). Between Bunker Hill and Winchester March 7. Stephenson's Depot March 7 - 8. Winchester on March 12. Kernstown on March 22. Winchester on March 23. Edenburg April 1. Grass Lick, W. Va., April 23 (Co. "B"). Wardensville, W. Va., May 7 (Co. "B"). Charlestown W.V. May 28. Companies were re - organized into a Battalion on August 1, 1862, and designated as Cole's Battalion, Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry. Cole’s Cavalry was then attached to Railroad Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to September 1862. Transferred to the Cavalry, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November 1862.

Defenses of Upper Potomac, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to March, 1863. Reassigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps, to July 1863. Reassigned to 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights Division West Virginia, to December 1863. Reassigned Cavalry Brigade, 1st Division West Virginia, to April 1864. Reassigned 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, West Virginia, to August 1864. Reassigned 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, to October 1864. Reassigned Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to January 1865. Reassigned 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division West Virginia, to February 1865. Reassigned 1st Brigade, 2nd Division West Virginia, to June 1865.

The 1864 Registry

COMPANY OFFICERS

• Captain John Horner  -  Resigned, June 10, 1862
• 2nd Lieut. Albert E. Hunter  -  Promoted Captain, June 10, 1862; Taken prisoner, Sept. 2, 1862 and Jan. 1, 1864
• 1st Lieut. John M. Annan  -  Accidentally shot, Nov. 13 1861, died the same night
• 2nd Lieut. Washington Morrison - Resigned June 10, 1862
• 1st Sergeant Wm. A. Horner  -  Promoted to 1st Lieut., June 10, 1862
• 3rd Sergeant Hiram S. McNair  -  Promoted to 2nd Lieut., June 10, 1862, resigned Jan. 2, 1864
• 1st Sergeant Oliver A. Horner  -  Promoted to 2nd Lieut., Jan. 14, 1864, to Adjutant, April 20, 1864

SERGEANTS

• Oscar D. McMillan, 3rd Sergeant, Promoted 1st Sergeant, Jan. 14 taken prisoner at’ Leesburg, Sept. 2,1862.
• A.M. Walker, Q. M.
• Samuel J. Maxell, Com. - Taken prisoner, Sept. 2, 1862
• Andrew A. Annan, 3d
• John E. Gilson, 4th - Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864
• Henry F. Buckingham, 5th
• Martin Diehl, 6th
• George W. Shiver , 7th - Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864

CORPORALS

• William N. Currens, 1st
• William A. Mcilhenny 2nd, Wounded, Oct 18, 1863
• James A. Scott, 3d. Wounded, Sept. 2, 1862 Taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862.
• Henry A. Reaver, 4th
• Henry C. Hilleary, 5th
• Theodore McAllister, 6th
• Samuel N. McNair, 7th
• Samuel Bostick, 8th,Wounded Sept. 2, 1862 taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862.

BUGLERS.

• Max. J. Goble - Taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862 and Jan. 1, 1864.
• Thomas B. Sherfey

FARRIERS

• George B. Williar
• John Brady

SADDLER

• Samuel J. Wolf - Taken prisoner Sept. 2, 1862

Privates

• Beard, Silas
• Beard, F. J.
• Bowers, S. L..
• Brown, John - Wounded, Oct 18, 1863
• Crouse, William A
• Crooks,  - Robert E. - Taken prisoner Sept 11 1862
• Currens, Charles C.
• Dorsey, Charles
• Fell, Joseph L.
• Flohr, Rueben A
• Flood, William - Shot through the knee; leg amputated.
• Fleagle, Martin J. - Taken prisoner, Dec. 20, 1862
• Fralley, William
• Fritchey, Alfred N. - Taken prisoner, Dec. 20, 1862; and Jan. 1.,. 1864
• Fites, Theodore - Taken prisoner, Dec. 20, 1862, and Jan. 1,1864.
• Gelwicks, George
• Gelwicks, John H
• Gelwicks, Theodore
• Gettier, Henry
• Gettier, John
• Gillelan, George - Taken prisoner Sept 2 1862
• Gilson, Charles A.
• Gilson, R. Newton
• Gibbs, James
• Grimes, James - Taken prisoner Apr 1 1862
• Glosser, Peter
• Hizer, Lewis
• Horner, S. McAllen
• Hunter, J. J.
• Hartzell, Jacob  - Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864
• Hitchcock, Franklin -  Promoted 2d Lieut. of Co A, Jann. 1, 1863.
• Jacobs, Geo. W. - Wounded and taken prisoner, Sept 2 , 1862
• Knott, John E.
• King, Hiram
• Koontz, Noah
• Lott, William H. - Taken prisoner, Sept. 2, 1862
• Longwell, D. Wilson - Taken prisoner, Sept. 11, 1862 ; wounded at Loudon Heights, Va., Jan. 10, 1864,
• Maker, William D.
• Maxell, Thaddeus  -  A.
• Mering, E. Wallace - Taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862
• McCullough, James - Taken prisoner, Sept. 15, wounded and again captured, Jan. 1,1864.
• McCullough, John
• McKinney, Joseph L.
• McFarland, Wm. J. - Taken. prisoner, Sept. 11,
• McFarland, Augustus
• Mushour,. John
• Myers, Jacob E. - taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862
• Newnam, H.B
• Plowman, Mosheim S. - Taken prisoner, Sept. 15, 1862
• Sites, John
• Shields, Craig B.
• Shildt, David
• Shaucheney, John
• Sponceler, George
• Sponceler, John H - Wounded and taken prisoner, Jan. 1,1864.
• Spangler, George - Taken prisoner, Dec. 20, 1862
• Stahl, Jesse
• Sterner, David A.
• Scheirer Alex C.
• Turle, Henry
• Test, Joseph U. Taken prisoner, Sept. 11, 1862
• Wible, Joseph E. Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864
• Weikert, William F  - Wounded, Dec. 1, 1862
• Weikert, A. Valentine
• Wenk, William B. Wounded - Nov. 17, 1803; taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864.
• White, William
• Weddle, William J. Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864
• Weaver, William H. - Wounded, Jan. 10, 1864
• Wenschhof, Edward C. Taken prisoner, Jan. 1, 1864
• Wolf, John F
• Wolford, Thomas
• Wilson, Samuel D. - Taken prisoner, Dec. 20, 862
• Wagner, Charles

KILLED IN ACTION.

• George Cease  -  At Leesburg, Va., Sept. 2, 1862
• Edwin Jordan  -  At Charlestown, Oct. 18, 1863

DIED IN HOSPITAL

• Corpral Joseph H. C. Wills  -  At Emmitsburg, Md
• Thomas Duphorn  -  At Hagerstown, Md
• Zaccheus Hollebaugh  -  At Gettysburg, Pa
• Henry Hughes  -  At Gettysburg, Pa
• Henry Ocker  -  At Taneytown, Md

• Joseph A. Bennett
• John A. Bollar
• John Swann
• Calvin D. Kern
• Isaac Richards
• George W. Weikert
• Daniel B. Weigle
• Peter Wolf
• John Huber - By order of Secretary of War

DESERTED

• Serg’t. George W. Gulnn - From Maryland Heights.
• John B. Coyle - From Williamsport, Md
• Henry Gehr - From Winchester, Va
• R. Harris - From Kearneysville, Va
• Oliver Johnston - From Kearneysville, Va
• B. Kauffman - From Bolivar Heights,. Va
• B. Myers - From Bolivar heights, Va
• Joseph McAlevey - From Kearneysville, Va
• John Moritz - From Kenrneysville, Va
• Lake B. Morrison - From Frederick, Md
• E. V. Reck - From Winchester, Va
• Benjamin Sharp - From Kearneysyille, Va
• B. F. Sterner - From Bolivar Heights, Va
• George Taylor - From Kearneysville, Va
• Levi Thomas - From Winchester, Va
• Oliver Welch - From Maryland Heights

Know of a name not listed, then try our archived edition for a complete listing: The Solders of Company C, Cole’s Cavalry  1861-1865

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