William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each., page 504

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Chapter 1 : the casualties of war — maximum of killed in Union regiments — maximum of percentages.

Chapter 2 : maximum of regimental loss in killed in any one battle — proportion of wounded to killed.

Chapter 3 : percentage of killed in regiments in particular battles — comparison of such losses with those of European regiments.

Chapter 4 : loss in officers — list of Generals killed — Surgeons and Chaplains killed.

Chapter 5 : casualties compared with those of European wars — loss in each arm of the service — deaths from disease — classification of deaths by causes.

Chapter 6 : the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease.

Chapter 7 : muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics.

Chapter 9 : famous divisions and brigades.

Chapter 11 : list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each.

Chapter 12 : list of regiments and Batteries in the Union Armies with mortuary losses of each — the number killed and number of deaths from disease or other causes.

Chapter 13 : aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy .

Chapter 14 : the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate.

Chapter 15 : Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies --casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy .

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Many of the noted generals of the war were Indianians: Generals Lew. Wallace, Hovey, Jefferson C. Davis, Meredith, Wagner, Jos. J. Reynolds, Kimball, Foster, Cruft, Harrow, Colgrove, Miller, Cameron, Gresham, Coburn, Hascall, Harrison, Veatch, Manson, Benton, Scribner, Wilder, Grose, and others.

The age and height of 118,254 Indiana soldiers (out of about 200,000 enlistments) was recorded, with the following interesting result:

Height.

No. of men.

Height.

No. of men.

Age.

No. of men.

Age.

No. of men.

Under

5 ft.

1 in.

501

At

5 ft.

10 in.

15,047

Under

17 years

270

At

26 years

4,283

At

5 ft.

1 in.

263

At

5 ft.

11 in.

8,706

At

17 years

634

At

27 years

3,758

At

5 ft.

2 in.

971

At

6 ft.

--in.

6,679

At

18 years

21,935

At

28 years

3,929

At

5 ft.

3 in.

2,503

At

6 ft.

1 in.

2,614

At

19 years

10,519

At

29 years

2,769

At

5 ft.

4 in.

5,387

At

6 ft.

2 in.

1,357

At

20 years

9,435

At

30 years

3,001

At

5 ft.

5 in.

9,171

At

6 ft.

3 in.

406

At

21 years

9,705

At

31 to 34 years

8,361

At

5 ft.

6 in.

14,373

Over

6 ft.

3 in.

336

At

22 years

7,835

At

35 years and over

14,127

At

5 ft.

7 in.

15,328

At

23 years

6,789

At

5 ft.

8 in.

19,140

Total recorded,

118,254

At

24 years

6,013

Total recorded,

118,254

At

5 ft.

9 in.

15,472

At

25 years

4,891

1888.

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