32nd Maine Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:32nd Maine Infantry Regiment
Dates:March 3, 1864 – December 12, 1864
Country:United States
Allegiance:Union
Branch:Infantry
Battles:Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of the Crater

The 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment (1864) was an infantry regiment of the Union army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was organized at Augusta, Maine, as a volunteer unit between March 3 and May 6, 1864. Six companies left Maine for Washington, D.C. on April 20, 1864. The remaining four companies left Maine on May 11, 1864, and rejoined the rest of the regiment at North Anna River in Virginia on May 26, 1864. The regiment was attached to the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division of the IX Corps in the Army of the Potomac, until it was absorbed by the 31st Maine Infantry Regiment on December 12, 1864.

Battles and Campaigns

Total Strength and Casualties

The 32nd Regiment lost a total of 202 men during service: 4 Officers and 81 Enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, while 3 Officers and 114 Enlisted succumbed to disease.https://web.archive.org/web/20060913193224/http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/32meinf.htm

Commanders

See also

References

Sources

Houston,Henry C The Thirty-Second Maine Regiment of Infantry Volunteers, Press of Southworth Brothers, Portland,Maine, 1903

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