Soldier: Philo Holcomb
Regiment: 85th OVI
Company: C
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 6/7/1862
Period of Service: 3 months 16 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mutered out with Company 9/23/1862
Battles in which he fought:
The 85th OVI was organized at Camp Chase, Columbs, Ohio between May and June 1862 to guard a large number of Rebel prisoners. Soldiers mustered out between September 2 and September 27, 1862 at expiration of sentence.
Other interesting information discovered:
Philo Holcomb was born in Pennsylvania on 2/21/1843. Philo moved t the Atlanta, Georgia area after the War. He married Rebecca Fenton Starr King on 11/4/1878 in Atlanta, Georgia, 8 children were born of this union. Philo was employed as a telegraph and telephone operator while living in Atlanta. He collected an invalid’s pension on 8/30/1911. Rebecca collected a widow’s pension on 6/10/1926.
Date of Death: 5/25/1926 Place of burial: Westview Cemetery, Fulton, Georgia
Adopted By: Keith Richey Researcher: Velda L Montgomery