Total Strength and Casualties
Unit strength was 1,557. The regiment suffered 6 officers and 109 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 285 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 402 fatalities. 338 were wounded.
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