Found a Union Samuel Hooser in the 30th Indiana Infantry. Not much information on him. Enlisted 11/3/1864. Mustered out 11/8/1865. This regiment was part of the Army of the Ohio. Spent much of the war in Tennessee, they fought at Stones River, Chickamauga, and Nashville. Might he have been a Union man that had a chance to join the Yankee army late in the war ?
Glenn