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| 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 | +-------------+------------+-------------+--------------+-----------+ | Total | 161 | 202 | 73 | 31 | +-------------+------------+-------------+--------------+-----------+ 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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