32nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

32nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 32nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= December 31, 1861 to September 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The 32nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 32nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 31, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on September 16, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 90 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officer and 168 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 268 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf3.htm#32nd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Commanders

*Colonel John A. Logan
*Lieutenant Colonel George H. English - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/032-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]

ee also

*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]


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