Adam Reinhart

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"This is the bible of Adam Reinhart son of Johannes Reinhart and Margaret Deitz. It is clear that the bible passed first to the family of their daughter Ann Eliza Reinhart and her husband Lewis Fowler son of Adam Fowler and Sophia Snyder. It is now in the possession of Dana (Barton) Berry in Bellevue, WA Her paternal grandmother was Elsie May Reinhart, daughter of Peleg Reinhart and Mariah Jane Green of Gilbertsville, Otsego Co., NY.
On the Bible's inside cover is written in Adam's hand: ""Adam Reinhart's Book Bought in the City of Albany the 30th of May 1845 by A Reinhart"". Immediately below the inscription is pasted a short article from a newspaper. It was added at a later date. It says:
WHERE IS THE SECOND CORPS? -- The following significant remark was recently made by the gallant Gen. Hancock:
""I have left the Second Corps dead on the fields between the Rapidan and Petersburg.""
Could there be a more crushing commentary on the overland route policy?
The Second Corps numbered 29,000 men on the 1st of May last. A few weeks ago it had lost over 30 brigade commanders, over 2,000 commissioned officers, and within a fraction of 29,000 men!
What survive of this gallant corps are but a few hundreds more than the recruits which from time to time joined it while on its bloody march. When Gen. Hancock said, ""I have left the Second Corps on the fields between the Rapidan and Petersburgh,"" he didn't exaggerate. It was extinguished in that dreadful campaign, and is no more! It was sacrificed to the Moloch of fanatic egotism that presides over the White House. It is dead and gone, and the men who are now called upon to fill up the vacant ranks, will not recruit but replace its veteran soldiers.
DEATHS
[First column]
Sinthiyamariah(?) Reinhart Diet the 9 of May 1833 age 3 years 3 M. 24 Days
Adam Reinhart Diet the 6 of november 1865 Age 60 years and 4 monts
libby Reinhart died the 7 of April 1870 age 15 - ten monts
Sophia Reinhart died the 11 of jen (Jan?) 1881 age 76 9 months
[Second column]
Margret Dietz the Wife of Johannace Reinhart Diet the 19 of Jen..1843 - Age.. 84 years
Johannace Reinhart Diet the 12. of .. Jen.. 1844 Age.. 87 years
Alvirie Fowler the Dorter of Lewis Fowler Diet the 3 of September 1846 age 17 monthes 4 Days
Almire endny Fowlar the doughter of Lewis Fowler Diet
Lewis Fowler Diet Nov the 22. 1851 age 29:11.14 dayes
?? John 17.,24
Peter Fowler Died No 9 1863
On the reverse side of the page there are only 2 entries:
Adam Reinhart 16 of Jun 1860
Mary E. Reinhart (the date is mostly illegible, but I think it says 26 of Ju? 1856)"

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