He joined Company N, 4th Indiana Cavalry as a Private 28 July 1862 at Bowling Green, IN. He served as a courier and was behind enemy lines several times. He was promoted to Corporal and then Sergeant, and mustered out at Edgefield, TN 29 June 1865. His military record states that he had a dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, was an engineer, and stood 5 feet 9 3/4 inches. Freeborn was working in Brazil, IN by 1868. He and Jane Daves also had a son in late January or early February, 1871, possibly dead at birth or soon thereafter on 5 February 1871. The 1870 census of Brazil Twp., Clay Co., IN lists Freeborn, Jr. (age 29, a carpenter with real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $ 125) with wife Jane (age 29), both b. in IL, daughter Cora (age 2) and John P. Salts (age 8, b. in IN). Freeborn m. 2) July 2, 1872 in Brazil, IN Mary Melissa Turner. Freeborn is son of Freeborn H. Gardner and Lavinia Kimball.
He joined Company N, 4th Indiana Cavalry as a Private 28 July 1862 at Bowling Green, IN. He served as a courier and was behind enemy lines several times. He was promoted to Corporal and then Sergeant, and mustered out at Edgefield, TN 29 June 1865. His military record states that he had a dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, was an engineer, and stood 5 feet 9 3/4 inches. Freeborn was working in Brazil, IN by 1868. He and Jane Daves also had a son in late January or early February, 1871, possibly dead at birth or soon thereafter on 5 February 1871. The 1870 census of Brazil Twp., Clay Co., IN lists Freeborn, Jr. (age 29, a carpenter with real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $ 125) with wife Jane (age 29), both b. in IL, daughter Cora (age 2) and John P. Salts (age 8, b. in IN). Freeborn m. 2) July 2, 1872 in Brazil, IN Mary Melissa Turner. Freeborn is son of Freeborn H. Gardner and Lavinia Kimball.
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