35th Ohio Infantry

The 35th Ohio Infantry of Van Derveer's Brigade, Brannan's Division, Thomas Corps, commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Boynton, was engaged on Sept. 19th, 1863, in the opening of the Battle of Chickamauga by Brannan's Division near Jay's Mill. On Sept. 20th at 11 A.M. on Kelly Field, it participated in repulsing Adams' and Stovall's Brigades of Breckinridge's Division. At 2:30 P.M. it occupied this position, forming the right of Van Derveer's Brigade and of Brannan's command, and after the withdrawal at sunset of Steedman's troops on its right and the partial capture of three intervening regiments, it became the right of the line on Snodgrass Hill. It defeated every attempt to carry this position, and soon after 7:30 P.M., when all efforts to take this point had been abandoned, the regiment was ordered to follow those on its left in withdrawing. Taken into action with 391 officers and men, it suffered 24 killed, 19 mortally wounded, 124 wounded, and 28 captured or missing, for a total of 195 casualties, a loss of 49.87 percent.

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