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32nd
Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry, 3rd PA Reserve
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32nd
Pennsylvania Infantry, 3rd PA Reserve Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 1 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Thirty-second Infantry.— Col., Horatio G. Sickel;
Lieut.-Cols., William S. Thompson, John Clark; Majs., R. H. Woolworth,
William Briner. The 31st, the 3d of the Pa. reserves, was recruited
mainly in Philadelphia and Bucks county and was mustered in for three
years, at Harrisburg, July 27, 1861. It became at once the 3d regiment
of the 2nd brigade, under Brig.-Gen. George G. Meade, posted at
Tennallytown. It participated in the reconnoissance to Dranesville, in
Oct., 1861 ; the operations of the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula
in the spring of 1862, including the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines'
mill, Glendale and Malvern hill. In August it joined the Army of
Virginia, with which it was active at the second Bull Run and in reserve
at Chantilly. Returning to the Army of the Potomac, it was engaged at
South mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In Feb., 1863, the regiment
was ordered to Washington and assigned to the 22nd army corps, with the
rest of the 2nd brigade, remaining there until Jan., 1864, when it was
ordered to West Virginia and reached Martinsburg on the 7th, where it
remained on picket duty until the 28th. It then moved west to New creek
; marched in futile pursuit of the enemy until Feb. 6; returned to
Martinsburg; performed picket duty at Vanclevesville until Mar. 27;
moved to Harper's Ferry, and then to Webster. On April 22, it started
for Parkersburg, continued from there to Brownstown on the Great Kanawha
river, and on up the river to Fayette, the object of the expedition
being to destroy the communication furnished Lee by the Virginia &
Tennessee railroad. On May 9, 1864, the command engaged the enemy at
Cloyd's mountain successfully, but with heavy loss. Driving the enemy
before them the Union troops reached the railroad and accomplished the
object of the campaign. The return was commenced and after days of
arduous marching and skirmishing the command reached Meadow Bluff on May
19. Three days later it was ordered to Millville, and on the 30th
started for home. The regiment was mustered out at Philadelphia June 17,
1864, when the veterans and recruits were consolidated into a battalion,
which participated in the engagements of the remainder of the campaign
and was finally transferred to the 54th Pa. infantry. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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