This regiment was mustered into service Sept. 18, 1862 and November 22d left Muscatine, Iowa, for Cairo, Ill., where it arrived on the 24th. Five companies were ordered to Columbus, Ky., under command of Lieut. Col. Rothrock, the balance of the regiment being relieved from duty at Cairo by the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, December 29th; the balance of the Thirty-fifth Regiment was ordered to Columbus Feb. 3, 1863; a part of the regiment was ordered to proceed to Island No. 10, but returned on the 5th.

April 12, 1863, the regiment was ordered to report at Duckport, La., where they arrived April 18, and left May 2d under the command of Gen. Sherman. On May 14th, participated in the battle at Jackson, Miss., thence marched on Vicksburg, where they were hotly engaged most of the time during the seige of that place.

July 5, 1863, left camp in on Black river for Jackson, Miss., after the evacuation of which by the enemy on the 16th, the regiment was engaged destroying the railroads in and around Jackson. Left Jackson July 20, for Clinton, Miss., escorting 600 prisoners of war, and went into camp at Bear Creek, Miss., July 26th.

On the 15th of October the regiment left camp on a scouting expedition under Gen. McPherson returning to camp within eight miles of Vicksburg Oct. 20, 1863. Left here November 7th, and reached La Grange, Tenn., November 21. Jan. 25, 1864, the regiment repaired to Memphis to take part in Sherman's raid to Meridian, but on account of delay in transportation, reached Vicksburg to late to join Sherman. Remained in camp there till March 16, when they took boats to join Banks' expedition into Upper Louisiana. March 21 and 22, 1864, the regiment engaged in a sharp fight at Bayou Rapids, twenty-two miles from Alexandria, Louisiana.

April 9th, the regiment was engaged at Pleasant Hill, and showed great coolness and bravery. Their loss in killed, wounded and missing was sixty-four. May 18, 1864, the regiment again met the enemy at Bayou de Glaize., La., and on June 6th they fought at Old River Lake, Ark., and later they were in the battles before Nashville, and served their country nobly to the end of the war, and were mustered out of service at Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1865.

(NOTE: James Harvey KEITH (Sr) was my great-great-grandfather and although he served in this regiment and at Vicksburg where he was taken ill, hospitalized, sent to the hospital ward at Jefferson Barracks where he died on August 2, 1863, leaving his young wife, the former Susannah VANTREESE, to care for their five young children. Their eldest child and only daughter, Eliza Ann KEITH, was my great-grandmother).

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