32nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

32nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
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Active	December 24, 1862 to July 8, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Red River Campaign Battle of Nashville

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

Service

The 32nd Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Bragg in Oshkosh and mustered into service on September 25, 1862. The regiment left Wisconsin for Memphis, Tennessee, on October 30 and moved through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington D.C.

It participated in the Siege of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, the Battle of Bentonville and the surrender of the Confederate army.

Casualties

The 32nd Wisconsin suffered 1 officer and 26 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 112 fatalities.

Commanders

• Colonel James Henry Howe
• Colonel Charles Henry De Groat

Notable members

• George F. Caldwell
• Samuel Abbott Ferrin
• Simon Lord
• Henry Markham

See also

• Addie L. Ballou
• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive