. History of the Fifty-first Indiana veteran volunteer infantry. A narrative of its organization, marches, battles and other experiences in camp and prison; from 1861 to 1866. With revised roster . EGIMENT. According to that authority, also, the Fifty-First had,from first to last, 43 original commissioned officers, 16 orig-inal non-commissioned officers, 880 original enlisted men,654 recruits, 295 re-enlisted veterans, 69 unassigned re-cruits, 7 ct)mmissioned officers died, 259 enlisted men died,130 deserted, 51 are unaccounted for ; a total of 1644. Theroster reduces this number to 1614, as f
. History of the Fifty-first Indiana veteran volunteer infantry. A narrative of its organization, marches, battles and other experiences in camp and prison; from 1861 to 1866. With revised roster . EGIMENT. According to that authority, also, the Fifty-First had,from first to last, 43 original commissioned officers, 16 orig-inal non-commissioned officers, 880 original enlisted men,654 recruits, 295 re-enlisted veterans, 69 unassigned re-cruits, 7 ct)mmissioned officers died, 259 enlisted men died,130 deserted, 51 are unaccounted for ; a total of 1644. Theroster reduces this number to 1614, as follows :Companies. ABODE P^GHIK Total. Killed 7 5 7 1 0-5 0 3 1 8 32 Diseased 18 12 IG lU 4 1 4 6 21 20 109 Unknown 8 4 8 9 15 17 11 29. Comrades : Stop and listen to what 1 have; to say :I want to scan .your faces, and shake your hands years have rushed by swiftly, yet it seems an age to Old Pap Thomas had his last review in was color in your faces then, and fire in your eyes, •And courage in your loyal hearts that nothing could disguise;We marched and fought together in sunshine rain and snow,On Southern plains and mountain-sides, many years vision floats before me, a phantom troop goes by. With bayonets glistening brightly, and banners waving high :Down to the fields of strife they go, with proud and gallant tread ;Down to the feast of carnage — to the harvest of the of hardships on their backs, burdens of hunger and thirst :Burdens of pictures on their hearts,—almost ready to burst;Pictures of motiier and sister, of sweetheart and of wife;Pictures of bovhoods sunny home, dearer to them than life!I hear again the sad good-bye, and the m
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