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REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED.

*Reenlisted. 1Six months service. $Nine months men.

present at Gettysburg, where three of the regiments, under command of General Stannard, took a conspicuous part in the repulse of Pickett's charge.

The ist Infantry was a three-months regiment. It was organized at Rutland, May 9, 1861, and fought at Big Bethel. The other regiments enlisted for three years, and the ist Cavalry, the ad Battery, and the 2u, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and gth Infantry reenlisted, and served through rhe war. The nth Infantry was changed to the ist Heavy Artillery, leaving that number in the line vacant.

Massachusetts. — The i4th Infantry was changed to the ist Heavy Artillery ; and the 4ist Infantry to the 3d Cavalry — leaving their original numbers vacant. The 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Infantry served first as three-months' regiments, having volunteered in April, 1861, at the outbreak of the war. The 6th became famous by reason of its fight in the streets of Baltimore. The 4th fought at Big Bethel, and the 5th was hotly engaged at First Bull Run. These regiments belonged to the State Militia, and volunteered a second time, under the Presi dent's call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months' service. The 5th, 6th and 8th volunteered for

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