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.
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