CHAPTER XIII.
PATRIOTISM OF SHELBY AND MOULTRIE COUNTIES.

THIRTY-FIFTH  REGIMENT - INFANTRY
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     Was organized in Decatur July 3, 1861, and its services tendered to the President; on the 23d of same month it was accepted by the secretary of war, as Col. G. A. Smith's Independent Regiment of Illinois Volunteers; on the 4th of August left Decatur, and the next day arrived at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; thence to Marine Hospital, St. Louis.  Eight companies were there mustered into the United States service; aggregate strength of regiment, 793.  On 15th September transported by railroad to Jefferson City, Mo.; next to Otterville; marched to Sedalia, and found Gen. Siegel's advance on Springfield, arriving there the 26th; moved from Springfield to Rolla; returned to Springfield, Mo., Feb. 13, 1862.  March 5, retired from Cross Hollows to Pea Ridge, in which latter engagement Col. G. A. Smith was severely wounded.  The 35th Regiment also took part in the pursuit of Price. The main battles in which this regiment was engaged were: Rocky-faced Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Mud Creek, Kenesaw, Perryville, Stone River and Chickamauga, at which last battle the 35th lost, in killed, and wounded and missing, eight commissioned officers and one hundred and fifty men.  Went into the action with eighteen commissioned officers and two hundred and eighty-one enlisted men.  After the battle, the command proceeded to Chattanooga, and on the 25th of November took part in the storming and capture of Mission Ridge.  The flag of this regiment was carried in advance of the  men to within twenty steps of the rebel works on the crest.  In this engagement the regiment's losses were: killed, six men; wounded, two commissioned officers and forty-six men.  From May 7 to August 26, took part in the Atlanta campaign.  Total losses in killed, wounded and missing in that campaign were: six commissioned officers and one hundred and eighteen men.  Went into camp at Chattanooga on the 27th of August, and on the 31st of the same month started for Springfield, Illinois; did some skirmishing on the road, and on September 27th, 1864, was at Springfield mustered out of the service, and received pay and discharge.  Their ranks were seriously decimated by the hardships and privations of war.  This was one of the bravest regiments that went from the grand old Prairie State; and in the many perilous engagements in which it took a part, the sons of Shelby county showed their heroism and courage, and covered themselves with glory.  The Shelby county men formed a part of five companies comprising this regiment, viz.: companies B, D, C, F, and K.  Company C was almost entirely from this county, both officers and men, as the appended roster will show.

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