John H. Cretin
Name: John H. Cretin
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 1st MD Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 09/20/1862
Company: C
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Applied for pardon and wrote and signed the Oath of Allegiance in the application on 8/11/1865
Source(s):
Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 216; William Worthington Goldsborough, The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1900), 232; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 121; Thomas Vincent Huntsberry and Joanne Huntsberry, Maryland in the Civil War, Volume I (Baltimore: J. Mart Publishers, 1985), 85; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998), 52.
