Total Strength and Casualties
The 8th Independent Battery initially recruited 161 officers and men. An additional 102 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 263 men.
The battery suffered 1 officer and 1 enlisted men men killed in action or died of wounds and 26 enlisted men men who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities.
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