Soldier:  Daniel B Coykendall     

Regiment:  85^th. OVI                 

Company:  C

Age:  20                       

Date Entering Service:  6/2/1862

Period of Service:  3 months 24 days

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

Mustered out with Companion 9/23/1862

Battles in which he fought:

The 85th OVI was organized between May and June 1862 to serve three months at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio to guard a large number of Rebel prisoners.  Soldiers mustered out between September 23 and September27, 1862 at expiration of service.

Other interesting information discovered:

Daniel B Coykendall was born in Ohio on 4/30/1842. On 11/26/1862 he married Elizabeth Miller in Morrow County, ten children were born of the union.    Daniel lived and farmed in the Morrow and Marion County area all of his life. He collected an invalid’s pension on 3/22/1888.  The 1920 census listed Daniel living on Gilead Street in Cardington, Ohio.

Date of Death:  3/22/1926                     Place of burial:  Woodlawn Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  JH and CP Hill                                            Researcher: Velda L Montgomery