32nd_Illinois_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment

32nd Illinois Infantry Regiment

32nd Illinois Infantry Regiment

Military unit

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

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Service

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 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officer and 168 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 268 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

  • Colonel John Logan
  • Lieutenant Colonel George H. English - Mustered out with the regiment.[2]

Lieutenant Colonel William Hunter

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/032-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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