| Regiment. | Reenlistments. | Regiment. | Reenlistments. | Regiment. | Reenlistments. |
| 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery | 503 | 52d Indiana | 370 | 9th Indiana | 291 |
| 33d Indiana | 460 | 18th Indiana | 334 | 17th Indiana | 288 |
| 34th Indiana | 439 | 22d Indiana | 331 | 31st Indiana | 285 |
| 47th Indiana | 416 | 24th Indiana | 327 | 25th Indiana | 284 |
| 8th Indiana | 386 | 8th Indiana Cavalry | 305 | 48th Indiana | 284 |
| 53d Indiana | 381 | 11th Indiana | 296 | 20th Indiana | 281 |
| 29th Indiana | 372 | 51st Indiana | 295 | 23d Indiana | 278 |
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The largest number of veteran reenlistments in the Indiana Volunteers occurred in the following regiments:
The 16th, 17th, 25th, 39th, 51st, 65th, 71st, 72d, and 73d Indiana were equipped as mounted infantry during part of their service.
The 17th and 72d Regiments, and the 18th 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 Eclipse, January 27, 1865, at Paducah, Ky.; the 9th Cavalry lost 78 men on the Steamer Sultana; and the 69th Infantry lost 2 officers and 20 men drowned by the swamping of a boat in Matagorda Bay.
1888.
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