Soldier: First Lieutenant Robert Maxwell Boggs
Regiment: 85th OVI
Company: C
Age: 24
Date Entering Service: 5/29/1862
Period of Service: 3 months 24 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company 9/23/1862
Battles in which he fought:
The 85th OVI was organized in Ohio in May and June, 1862 to serve three months, retained at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio to guard a large number of Rebel prisoners in confinement. Soldiers mustered out between September 23 and 27, 1862 at the end of service.
Other interesting information discovered:
Robert Maxwell Boggs was born in Cardington, Ohio in 1838. He married Harriett J Heiges in Montgomery County, Ohio on 8/17/1869, four children were born of this union. Robert was a school teacher who lived in Cardington, Delaware, Bellbrook, Ohio during his lifetime. He collected an invalid’s pension on 8/10/1892. Harriett collected a widow’s pension on 8/14/1897.
Date of Death: 8/9/1897 Place of burial: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery