| 3 |
| Company C | 11 | 25 | 7 | 8 |
| Company D | 16 | 19 | 9 | 3 |
| Company E | 15 | 25 | 6 | 2 |
| Company F | 15 | 26 | 4 | 3 |
| Company G | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 |
| Company H | 12 | 22 | 8 | 0 |
| Company I | 22 | 18 | 7 | 8 |
| Company K | 20 | 20 | 5 | 2 |
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| Total | 161 | 202 | 73 | 31 |
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The regiment lost fifty-one men killed and one hundred and fifty-four
wounded in battle, having participated in twenty-two engagements, not
mentioning many others in which it rendered assistance by supporting,
guarding flanks, or protecting rear. It marched thirty-five hundred and
thirty miles, and was transported by railroad about two thousand miles,
making a total distance of five thousand five hundred and thirty miles,
besides a great deal of traveling about camps, on picket, etc., that is
not taken into account.
There were three hundred and seventy-nine men mustered out with the
regiment; besides this number there were many absent at hospitals and
on detail who could not be present at the muster-out. Two days after it
was mustered out of the service, the regiment boarded the cars, at the
depot in Washington City, on its way to Chicago, there to receive its
pay, disband and go home.
From Washington it passed through Baltimore _via_ Harrisburg and
Pittsburgh to Chicago, where it arrived at twelve o'clock M., on the
11th of June. Everywhere on its route it received expressions of the
most cordial welcome. Every one seemed rejoiced that the soldier boys
were coming home from the bloody wars, in every way showing their
grateful feeling of warmest sympathy for the services they had rendered
to Union and liberty.
At Pittsburgh it received the kindest welcome of them all. More genuine
sympathy was manifested there than the boys had yet experienced. In
behalf of this people was engendered a feeling of the most profound
regard. The regiment was escorted from the cars to the city hall by a
band discoursing delightful music, where was prepared a
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