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32nd New
York Infantry
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32nd New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 21 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Thirty-second New York Infantry. — Cols. Roderick Matheson, Francis E. Pinto;
Lieut. -Cols., Francis E. Pinto, George F. Lemon, Charles Hubbs; Majs., George F. Lemon,
Charles Hubbs, Russell Myers. The 32d, the First California regiment, composed of three
companies from New York city, two from Amsterdam, two from Ithaca, one from Tarrytown, one
from Johnstown and one from New York and Tompkins county, was organized at New York city
and mustered into the U. S. service for two years on May 31, 1861, at New Dorp, Staten
Island. It left the state for Washington on June 29; was quartered there for a week and
then encamped near Alexandria, where it was assigned to the 2nd brigade, 5th division,
Army of Northeastern Virginia; was engaged at Fairfax Court House, Bull Run, and at
Munson's hill, and spent the winter at Fort Ward in Newton's brigade of Franklin's
division. In March, 1862, with the 3d brigade, 1st division, 1st corps, Army of the
Potomac, the regiment moved to Manassas; returned to Alexandria and embarked for the
Peninsula; was engaged at West Point, with a loss of 67 killed, wounded or missing, and
soon after was assigned to the 3d brigade, 1st division, 6th corps, with which it engaged
in the Seven Days' battles; then went into camp at Harrison's landing until Aug. 16, when
it returned to Alexandria. The regiment participated in the battles of Crampton's gap,
Antietam and Fredericksburg; went into winter quarters at Belle Plain; participated in the
"Mud March," and on April 28, 1863, broke camp and joined the light brigade of
the 6th corps for the Chancellorsville campaign, in which the 32nd lost 43 members killed,
wounded or missing. It returned on May 8 to the camp at Belle Plain and on the 25th the
three years' men were transferred to the 121st N. Y. infantry. The two years men were
mustered out at New York city on June 9, 1863. The total strength of the regiment up to
Jan., 1863, was 1,040 members and it lost during its term of service 45 by death from
wounds and 54 by death from other causes. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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