The Official Service Record and the 1864 Roster of Cole’s Cavalry
Company "C"
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
- 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.
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
- Munshower,. 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
- Discharged for Disability
- 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
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