Soldier:  Henry Rinehart

Regiment:         85^th. OVI                       

Company:         C

Age:       22                   

Date Entering Service:  6/5/1862

Period of Service:  3 months 18 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 organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio between My and June 1862 to guard a large number of prisoners. Soldiers mustered out between September 23 and September 27, 1862 at expiration of service.

Other interesting information discovered:

Henry Rinehart was born in Pennsylvania on 4/4/1840. He married Sarah A Oliver in Morrow County on 9/25/1862, three children were born of this union.  Henry was a clerk and a farmer while living in the Canaan and Gilead Townships of Morrow County.  Sometime after 1870 he moved to Minnesota. Sarah collected a widow’s pension on 8/23/1880.

Date of Death:  8/8/1879                        Place of burial:  Rice Lake Cemetery, Delavan, Minnesota

Adopted By:  Angie Ongalibang                                    Researcher:  Velda L Mont