Washington, D. C., July 8, 1865.
I suppose you have seen the announcement before this that we
are to be mustered out of the service at once. We shall probably be home in a
week or ten days; how long we shall be delayed there, I can't tell.
You may not hear from me again till I get home.
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[The regiment was mustered out of the service at Readville,
Mass., July 26, 1865. The total losses of the regiment in killed and wounded
during its entire term of service were: 14 officers and 176 enlisted men killed
or mortally wounded, and 26 officers and 410 enlisted men wounded, not
mortally. Total casualties in action, 626. Died of disease, 84; drowned, 4.]
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 216
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