32nd Missouri Infantry (U)

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Benton Barracks, Mo., October 18-December 8, 1862. Attached to District of Cape Girardeau, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to December, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division. 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved to Helena, Ark., December, 1862. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-23, and duty there until March. At Milliken's Bend, La., until April. Expedition to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek April 2-14. Demonstrations against Haines and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2. Moved to Join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., May 2-14. Mississippi Springs May 12. Jackson, Miss., May 14.

• May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10.
• Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
• Bolton's Depot July 16.
• Briar Creek, near Clinton, July 17.
• Clinton July 18.
• At Big Black until September 27.
• September 26-November 20, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29.
• Cherokee Station October 21 and 29.
• Cane Creek October 26.
• Tuscumbia October 26-27.
• November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
  • Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24;
  • Mission Ridge November 25.
  • Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.
• Garrison duty in Alabama until May, 1864.
• May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • May 8-13, 1864 - Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia
    • May 13, 1864 - Combat at Resaca, Georgia
  • May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
  • Advance on Dallas May 18-25.
  • May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2,
  • Bushy Mountain June 15-17.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
  • Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
  • July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
  • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Ezra Chapel, Hood's 2nd Sortie, July 28.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
• Ship's Gap, Taylor's Ridge, October 16.
• Consolidated to a Battalion of 3 Companies November 11, 1864, and consolidated with 3 Companies 31st Missouri Infantry (U) as 31st and 32nd Missouri (Consolidated) Infantry Battalion (U).
• Battalion re-designated 32nd Missouri Infantry June 20, 1865.
• Mustered out July 18, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 20 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 408 Enlisted men by disease. Total 434.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 705, 707, 715, 779, 783, 866, 1335)