Soldier:  George Forinash

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC                 

Company:  U (unassigned recruits)

Age:  26                       

Date Entering Service:  August 22, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Originally assigned to company “U,” unassigned recruits, but later assigned to company K.  In 1863 the notation “forwarded to regiment Dec., 1863” was made.  At some point he then enlisted in the Company B and H of the 17^th. VRC – Veteran Reserve Corp. 

Battles in which he fought:

Bardstown, Ky.                                      Oct. 4, 1862

Lexington, Ky.                                                   Oct. 7, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 31, 1862

Stewart’s Creek, Tenn.                           Jan. 1, 1863

Middleton, Tenn.                                               Jan. 31, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                             Sept. 19-20, 1863

McMinnville, Tenn.                                            Sept. 28, 1863

Shelbyville, Tenn.                                              Oct. 7, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

On June 1, 1865 George Forinash drowned in the White River of Indiana.  He is buried in the Crown Hill National Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.  On August 7, 1865 a minor’s pension was filed on the behalf of his grandson, B.W. Ratliff.

Date of Death:  June 1, 1865                  Place of burial:  Crown Hill Nat. Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.

Adopted By:  Morrow County Veterans Services                                                 

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard