The 35th Indiana Infantry Regiment, also known as 1st Irish Regiment as it was mainly made up of

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, was a unit of the Union Army during the

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*Organized December 11, 1861 *

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Battle of Chickamauga The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18–20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate States Army, Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southe ...

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* Ringgold Gap * Atlanta Campaign *

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* Franklin-Nashville Campaign *

Battle of Columbia The Battle of Columbia was a series of military actions that took place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It concluded the movement of Lt. Gen. John Be ...

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*Mustered out on October 23, 1865

Commanders

* Colonel John C. Walker * Colonel Bernard F. Mullen * Colonel August Tassin * Major John P. Dufficy

References

Dyer, F.H. 1908. ''A compendium of the war of the rebellion compiled and arranged from official records of the federal and Confederate armies...'' The Dyer Publishing Company. Des Moines, Iowa, USA. 35 Irish regiments of the United States Army Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 1861 establishments in Indiana {{Indiana-stub

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