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INDIANA REGIMENTS.

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

•Enlisted for one year. tKeenlisted and served through the war. {Three-months' service, 1861.

Indiana. — This State sent five regiments of volunteers to the Mexican War, and hence it was deemed advisable, for historic reasons, to commence numbering the volunteers of the last war at the sixth regiment.

Other missing numbers in the list of regiments are accounted for by the following synonymous designations:

Final Designation. 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery 1st Indiana Cavalry 2d Indiana Cavalry 3d Indiana Cavalry 4th Indiana Cavalry 5th Indiana Cavalry 6th Indiana Cavalry

Synonym.

2ist Indiana Volunteers. 28th Indiana Volunteers. 4ist Indiana Volunteers. 45th Indiana Volunteers. 77th Indiana Volunteers, goth Indiana Volunteers. 7ist Indiana Volunteers.

Final Designation.

7th Indiana Cavalry

8th Indiana Cavalry

9th Indiana Cavalry

loth Indiana Cavalry

nth Indiana Cavalry

I2th Indiana Cavalry

I3th Indiana Cavalry

39th I2ist I25th I26th I27th I3ist

Synonym.

Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers. Indiana Volunteers.

The infantry regiments bore designations identical with their volunteer numl>e r s.

The 56th, 6ist, 62d, Q2d, 94th, 95th, g6th, gSth, i22d, and 14151 Regiments were not organized. The regiments from the iO2d to the ii4th were composed of " minute men " who served about ten days during the

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