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History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865

Chapter 52: RECAPITULATION.
By Henry S. Burrage
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The narrative chronicles the formation, training, and service of a Massachusetts volunteer infantry regiment through mobilization, campaigns, and garrison duty during the American Civil War. Organized chapters trace departures, actions in Virginia and Kentucky, operations around Vicksburg and Jackson, movements in East Tennessee including the siege of Knoxville, later reorganization, and participation in the Overland and Petersburg campaigns, with accounts of trench fighting, the Mine incident, Pegram Farm, winter quarters, and the final assault. The volume combines campaign narratives, a siege diary, personal recollections, casualty lists, and a complete roster to record the regiment's experiences and losses.

RECAPITULATION.

Total number on the rolls of the regiment, including recruits, musicians, and all non-combatants:—

Commissioned officers (including 10 of 21st Mass.) 77
Enlisted men 1,031
CASUALTIES IN THE SERVICE.
Killed and died of wounds in battle,—
Commissioned officers 5
Enlisted men 102
Died of disease,—
Commissioned officers 3
Enlisted men 115
Died in captivity,—
Enlisted men 25
Discharged or transferred to V.R.C. for disability,—
Commissioned officers 9
Enlisted men 360
Deserted,—
Enlisted men 37
Transferred to Regular Army and Navy,—
Enlisted men 6
Transferred to 56th Mass. Vols. (Recruits),—
Enlisted men 27
Transferred to Band, Second Division, 9th A. C.,—
Enlisted men 1
By special order War Department,—
Enlisted men 1
Discharged for promotion,—
Commissioned officers 2
Enlisted men 35
Resigned,—
Commissioned officers 15
Honorably discharged,—
Commissioned officers 2
Discharged, expiration of service,—
Commissioned officers 41
Enlisted men 322

The number of deserters includes six who deserted at Worcester before the regiment left that city, and six others before it reached the seat of war,—reducing the number of desertions from the regiment while in the service to twenty-five.

The loss in the Thirty-sixth Regiment during its term of service, by deaths on the field and of wounds received in battle, and of disease contracted in the service, was twenty and one-half per cent. of the total number enrolled.