Horrine, Henry

Henry Horrine's Headstone

NPS

Quick Facts

Significance:

Private - 100th U.S. Colored Infantry, Company A

Place of Birth:

Jassamine County, Kentucky

Date of Birth:

ca. 1841

Place of Death:

Nashville, Tennessee

Date of Death:

July 26, 1864

Place of Burial:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Cemetery Name:

Stones River National Cemetery

Henry Horrine escaped enslavement to Joshua Horrine and found his way to Nicholasville, Kentucky where he enlisted in the 100th United States Colored Infantry (USCI) on May 10, 1864. Henry was 23 years old when he mustered into service as a private in Company A at Lexington, Kentucky. He travelled to Nashville with his regiment in June 1864 to work on and protect the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad that connected the supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee to Nashville.

Henry fell ill with typhoid fever in July and died in a Nashville general hospital on July 26, 1864. He rests in plot B-549 of Stones River National Cemetery.

The name inscribed on the stone, Henry Hazine, is one of a number of errors in spelling found on headstones throughout the Civil War sections. National Park Service policy permits replacing historic headstones when they are damaged beyond repair, but not just for the purpose of correcting errors of fact.