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

*Enlisted for thirty days. + Enlisted for sixty days. J Enlisted for six months. $ Unlisted for one hundred days.

The largest number of veteran reenlistments in the Indiana Volunteers occurred in the following regiments :

Regiment. Reenlistments.

1st Indiana Heavy Artillery 503

33d Indiana 460

34th Indiana 439

47th Indiana 416

8th Indiana 386

53d Indiana 381

29th Indiana 372

Regiment. Reentistments.

52d Indiana 370

iSth Indiana 334

22d Indiana 331

24th Indiana 327

8th Indiana Cavalry 305

i ith Indiana 296

Regiment. Reenlistments.

gth Indiana 291

lyth Indiana 288

3ist Indiana 285

25th Indiana 284

48th Indiana • 284

2oth Indiana 281

23d Indiana 278

5ist Indiana 295

The i6th, i7th, 25th, 39th, 5151. 65th, 7ist, 72d, and 73d Indiana were equipped as mounted infantry during part of their service. The i7th and ?2d Regiments, and the i8th Indiana Battery, formed a part of Wilder's " Lightning Brigade " of mounted infantry. This brigade was a well-known and efficient command.

The 9th Indiana Battery lost 29 men killed in a boiler explosion on the Steamer Kclipse, January 27, 1865, at Paducah, Ky.; the gth Cavalry lost 78 men on the Steamer Sultana ; and the 6gth Infantry lost 2 officers and 20 men drowned by the swamping of a boat in Matagorda Bay.

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