Captain (Major) James Brown Horner. Enlisted on April 23rd, 1861, at New York City, New York, for two years service at the age of 21; mustered into service as First Sergeant of Company D of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on May 4th, 1861; promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company B on June 3rd, 1862; transferred to Company D on November 22nd, 1862; promoted to First Lieutenant on March 4th, 1863; transferred to Company A on March 17th, 1863; mustered out of service with the Company on May 20th, 1863, at New York City, New York. (Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on June 3rd, 1862, with rank from April 19th, 1862, vice Lieutenant T.L. Bartholomew was promoted; as a First Lieutenant on March 4th, 1863, with rank from January 30th, 1863, vice Lieutenant R.A. Burdett had resigned.) Enrolled and is mustered into service as First Lieutenant of Company D of the 9th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment on August 15th, 1863, at Albany, New York, for three years service, at the age of 24; promoted to Captain on August 29th, 1863; transferred to Company H of the 17th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment on October 14th, 1863; promoted to Major on May 30th, 1865, but was not mustered into service as such; mustered out of service with the Company on July 13th, 1865, at Alexandria, Virginia. (Commissioned as Captain on December 29th, 1863, with rank from August 29th, 1863, original; as Major on May 30th, 1865, with rank from January 3rd, 1865, vice Major A.S. Marshall was promoted, but was never mustered into service as such.) [Born on August 5th, 1840, in Albany, New York; at the time of his enlistment he was described as having gray eyes, dark hair, a light complexion, was 5 ft. 2 in. tall, and was employed as a clerk; married, no information, and the couple had two children, Mrs. George H. Kuper and Marshall F. Horner; employed in the Wholesale Drug Business in New York City, New York, from 1865 to 1914, during which time he became a specialist in the cubeb berries, as well as a proprietor of a brand of cubeb cigarettes; worked as an Agent for a Manila manufacturer of ylang-ylang, no dates; worked as an agent for a Sicilian presser of Messina essences, no dates; member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the New York Drug and Chemical Club, and the Benevolent and Fraternal Order of Elks; died on December 27th, 1914, at his residence at 407 West Twenty-First Street in New York City, New York, at the age of 76; buried at the Staten Island Cemetery on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York.] “…a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian, but not blessed with an angelic temper. A characteristic of his, well known throughout the regiment, was a decided lack of patience.” – Private Edward K. Wightman, Co. B, 9th N.Y. Volunteers
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