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35th New
Jersey Infantry
| Regimental History |
| Thirty-fifth Infantry.— Col., John J. Cladek; Lieut.-Col., William
A. Henry; Maj., John B. Sine. This regiment, recruited chiefly in the counties of Essex
and Hunterdon, was mustered into service at Flemington in Sept., 1863, and soon afterward
proceeded to Washington. Being transferred to the southwest, it participated in the
Meridian expedition in Feb., 1864, having several skirmishes and losing a few men, being
absent altogether 32 days. It was soon afterward attached to the 1st brigade, 2nd
division, 16th corps, and without delay addressed itself to the work of preparing for the
formidable encounters of the Atlanta campaign justly supposed to lie before it. In the
first day's fighting at Resaca, Ga., the regiment stood bravely at its post and held the
ground during the night, having lost during the day 1 man killed and 13 wounded, and the
total casualties during the 3 days' fighting at that place were 2 men killed, 2 officers
and 20 men wounded. At Dallas two days were spent in skirmishing, fighting and making
careful approaches, a fierce engagement taking place on May 25, near New Hope Church,
between Hooker's corps and a part of the Confederate force. On the 27th the regiment was
again engaged, two companies under Capt. Angel being deployed as skirmishers and charging
the enemy with great gallantry drove him from an eminence which other regiments had
entirely failed to carry. During the two following days the regiment was almost constantly
engaged on the skirmish line, losing altogether 4 men killed, 8 wounded and 1 missing. In
June, while Hooker and Howard were pushing the enemy, the regiment was engaged on the
skirmish line, losing 7 men killed and 8 wounded, Capts. Courtois and Frazer being among
the latter. It then marched to Kennesaw and participated in the movements against that
position until, after constant battering and murderous fighting extending over a
fortnight, Sherman determined to throw his whole army rapidly by the right to threaten
Nickajack creek and Turner's ferry across the Chattahoochee. The regiment's next
engagement was at the battle of Decatur, where it suffered severely, the casualties
numbering 1 killed, 16 wounded, and 2 officers and 37 men missing. On Aug. 1 the regiment
advanced its position and took possession of a line of partially completed rifle-pits,
which it held until the 11th, meanwhile assisting in the construction of works at the
front. On the 11th, being ordered on the skirmish line, the regiment drove the enemy's
pickets out of their pits and took possession, losing 2 men wounded in the movement.
During the month of October the regiment participated in the movement of a portion of the
army to Marietta, Big Shanty and other points menaced by the Confederates under Hood, but
was only once actively engaged, namely, at Resaca, where it lost 25 in killed and wounded.
During the march to the sea the regiment was engaged as a support to the cavalry advance
at Little Ogeechee creek, but suffered no casualties. From Savannah the regiment
participated in the campaign of the Carolinas and after Johnston's surrender marched by
the usual route to Washington, where the men were supplied with a new Zouave uniform and
some weeks later were mustered out, proceeding on July 22 to Trenton, where their
campaigns terminated in a cordial welcome from the populace. The total strength of the
regiment was 1,906, and it lost during its term of service by resignation 19, by discharge
65, by promotion 42, by transfer 196, by death 147, by desertion 451, by dismissal 4, not
accounted for 132, mustered out 850. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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