URL Redirect

After a hiatus of almost a year I brought my blog back online and in the spirit of starting fresh I did not import any of my old posts. The site is still indexed on search engines and I am finding one post in particular still brings in traffic, but of course, that post no longer exists. Not wanting to loose this potential traffic I want to redirect the traffic from the old URL (http://www.mysite.com/?p=85) to a new one, for example (http://ww.mysite.com/?p=3).

Is there any way besides making 80 new dummy posts to easily redirect incoming traffic for the old URL to a post that currently exists?

I tried a .htaccess file with the following command:

Redirect 301 /?p=85 http://www.mysite.com/?p=3

This is not working, is it right???

Any help would be appreciated.