32nd Illinois Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in December 31, 1861. Moved to Cairo, Ill., January 28, 1862. Attached to District of Cairo, Ill., January to February, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of West Tennessee, and Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Department of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 13th Army Corps, to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865. Department of the Missouri to September, 1865.
SERVICE.--Moved from Cairo, Ill., to Bird's Point, Mo., February 2, 1862; thence to Fort Henry, Tenn., February 8-9, and duty there until March 5 (Co. "A" at Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 13-15, and on Expedition to Eastport, Miss. Cos. "C" and "K" on gunboats "Tyler" and "Lexington," February, 1862. 
* March 1, 1862 - Engagement at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
* Regiment moved from Fort Henry to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 5-15. 
* April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Memphis, Tenn., via Grand Junction, LaGrange, Holly Springs, Moscow and Germantown June 1-July 21, and duty there until September 6. Moved to Bolivar September 6-14, and duty there until October 3. March to relief of Corinth October 3. Battle of Metamora, or Hatchie River, October 5. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 3, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Guard line of Memphis & Charleston R. R. until March 11, 1863. At Memphis, Tenn., until May. Moved to Young's Point, La., thence to Grand Gulf May 11-16, and duty there until June 8. Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss. 
* May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Assault on Jackson July 12. Reconnaissance to Pearl River July 15. At Vicksburg until August 15. Moved to Natchez, Miss., August 15, and duty there until November 24. Expedition to Harrisonburg September 1-7. Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4. Moved to Vicksburg November 24, and returned to Natchez December 1. Operations about Natchez December 2-10. Near Fayette December 21-22. Moved to Hebron's Plantation, near Vicksburg, January 23, 1864. 
* February 3-March 2, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi
Clinton February 5. Near Canton February 27-28. Canton February 28-29. Veterans on furlough March and April. Moved to Bird's Point, thence to Clifton, Tenn., and march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., April 28-June 8. 
* May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
** Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
** Assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27. 
** Nickajack Creek July 2-5. 
** Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 
** Turner's Ferry July 5. 
** Duty at Marietta July 18 to November 3. 
** Action at Kenesaw Water Tank October 3, 
* November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
** Oconee River November 26. 
** December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
* January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
** Pocotaligo, S. C., January 14. 
** Salkehatchie Swamps February 1-5. 
** River's Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3. 
** Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9. 
** Orangeburg, North Edisto River, February 11-12. 
** Columbia February 15-17. 
** Cheraw March 3. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. 
** Battle of Bentonville March 20-21. 
** Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. 
** Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. 
** Occupation of Raleigh April 14. 
** Bennett's House April 26. 
*** Surrender of Johnston and his army. 
* March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. 
* Grand Review May 24. 
* Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 6. 
* Thence to St. Louis, Mo., and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
* March to Fort Kearney July 1-14, and duty on the Plains until September 1. 
* Ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and there mustered out September 16, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
 
 
 Field and Staff Officers
 
 
 Regimental Band
 
 
 Company A
 
 
 Company B
 
 
 Company C
 
 
 Company D
 
 
 Company E
 
 
 Company F
 
 
 Company G
 
 
 Company H
 
 
 Company I
 
 
 Company K
 
 
 Unassigned
 
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== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 90 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 168 Enlisted men by disease. Total 268.
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 703, 721, 722, 779, 784, 834, 845, 846, 1059-1060)
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