The Civil War in the East

35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

The 35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 138 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 100 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Burnside's Bridge at Antietam.

Monument to the 35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment near Burnside's Bridge at Antietam

1862

August 1

Organized at Worcester

August 22

Left State for Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 6-12

March into Maryland

September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

October 27

Duty at Pleasant Valley

October 27-
November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

November 15

Warrenton, Sulphur Springs

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January 25

At Falmouth

February 19

Moved to Newport News, Va.

March 26-30

To Covington, Ky. Attached to Dept. of the Ohio

April 1

Moved to Paris

April 3

To Mr. Sterling

May 6-7

To Lancaster

May 23

To Crab Orchard

May 25

To Stanford

June 3-14

Movement to Vicksburg, Miss. Attached to Army of the Tennessee

June 14-July 4

Siege of Vicksburg

July 5-10

Advance on Jackson, Miss.

July 10-17

Siege of Jackson

July 18

At Milldale

August 6-14

Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and attached to Dept. of the Ohio

August 15

At Covington, Ky.

August 18-25

March to Nicholasville

September 9-11

To Crab Orchard

October 2-29

March over Cumberland Mountains to Knoxville, Tenn., then to Lenoir Station

November 4-
December 23

Knoxville Campaign

November 4 - 14

At Lenoir Station

November 16

Campbell's Station

November 17-
December 4

Siege of Knoxville

December 5-19

Pursuit of Longstreet

1864

December -
March

Operations in East Tennessee

March 20-April 7

Movement to Annapolis, Md. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness. Assigned as acting Engineers, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 10

Ny River

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16

Siege of Petersburg begins

July

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September

Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps

September 29-
October 2

Poplar Springs Church

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

1865

March 25

Fort Stedman

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault on and fall of Petersburg

April 3

Occupation of Petersburg

April 4-10

March to Farmville

April 20-28

Moved to City Point, then to Alexandria

May 23

Grand Review

June 9

Mustered out

June 27

Discharged from service