Dates

• Existence: b.1844

Biographical Note

Horace Holcomb was born in New Hampshire in 1844. He enlisted as a private in Company A of the 10th New Hampshire Infantry in 1862, and was promoted to corporal on January 1, 1864. Holcomb was wounded on October 2, 1864 at Fort Harrison, Virginia and was taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, Virginia later that month. He was paroled on March 20, 1865, and promoted to sergeant on June 1 before mustering out with his regiment at Richmond three weeks later. The 1880 census lists a 36-year-old machinist named Horace J. Holcombe living in the Concorde (Merrimack County), New Hampshire home of his father-in-law, John G. Warren. Also in the home is Hattie E. Holcombe, 35, presumably Holcombe's wife. The census record shows that both Holcombes had been born in New Hampshire.

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