The 32nd New York Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 37 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 53 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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Organized at Camp Yates at New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. |
May 31 |
Mustered in under Colonel Roderick Matheson, Lieutenant Colonel Francis E. Pinto and Major George F. Lemon |
June 29 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
July 1 |
Arrived Washington |
July 8 |
Crossed the Potomac and camped nar Fort Ellsworth. Attached to Davies' Brigade, Miles' Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 14 |
Reconnaissance from Alexandria on Fairfax Road |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 17 |
Skirmish near Fairfax Court House
Captured eight Alabamans |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run
The regiment was in reserve, and covered the retreat of the army, forming square to repel cavalry on Centerville Heights. It lost 1 enlisted man missing. |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington attached to Franklin's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
August 21 |
Attached to Newton's Brigade, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac |
August 29 |
The regimet lost 1 officer and 1 enlisted man missing at Bailey's Cross Roads |
September 28 |
Reconnoissance to Munson's Hill |
October 3 |
Skirmish at Springfield Station |
December 2 |
The regiment lost 2 enlisted men missing at Annandale |
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March |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Dept. of the Rappahannock |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April 4-12 |
McDowell's advance on Falmouth, Va. |
April 9 |
At Catlett's Station. |
April 10 |
Franklin's Division was detached from the 1st Corps and ordered to return to Alexandria |
April 17 |
Embarked on transports |
April 19 |
Arrived on the Penninsula at Poquosin Bay |
April 24-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Va. (on transports) |
May 6 |
Landed at West Point |
May 7-8 |
West Point
The regiment lost 4 officers and 14 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 48 enlisted men wounded in fighting against Whiting's Confederate Division |
May 7 |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 10-25 |
Marched to New Market Bridge via Cumberland, White House Point, Tunstall's Station and Coal Harbor |
June 18 |
Crossed the Chickahominy at Woodbury's Bridge |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill
The regiment lost 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 40 enlisted men wounded, and 16 missing or captured |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp, Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 10 |
Left Harrison's Landing |
August 17 |
Crossed the Chickahominy |
August 18 |
Passed through Williamsburg |
August 19 |
Reached Yorktown |
August 20 |
Through Warwick Court House |
August 21 |
Reached Newport News |
August 22 |
Embarked on steamship Daniel Webster with the 18th New York |
August 24 |
Landed at Alexandria and marched a short distance up the Little River Turnpike |
August 29 - 30 |
Marched to Centerville and was placed in reserve on Centerville Heights |
September 1 |
Cover Pope's retreat to Fairfax Court House |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 6 |
Crossed the Potomac on the Long Bridge and marched to Tennallytown |
September 8 |
Through Rockville |
September 9 |
Through Darnestown |
September 11 |
Through Downesville |
September 12 |
Through Urbanna |
September 13 |
To Burkettsville. Lieutenant Colonel Pinto takes command of the 31st New York Infantry, whose colonel was promoted to brigadier general, leaving it without field officers |
September 14 |
Crampton's Gap, South Mountain
The regiment led the brigade in a charge that cost 2 officers and 10 enlisted men killed, Colonel Matheson, Major Lemon and 5 enlisted men mortally wounded and 32 enlisted men wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Pinto took command of the combined 32nd and 33rd Regiments as the only surviving field officer from either |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
The regiment was in a support position with the batteries under continual artillery fire, losing 1 enisted man mortally wounded and 2 wounded |
September 18 |
To Shepherdstown Ford |
September 18-
October 29 |
Duty in Maryland |
October 21 |
Colonel Matheson died of his Crampton's Gap wound at Burkettsville, Maryland |
October 22 |
Lieutenant Colonel Pinto promoted to colonel, Major Lemon (in hospital at Burkettsville) to lieutenant colonel, Captain Charles Hubbs of Company B to major, all with rank to October 2 |
October 29-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
October 29 -31 |
Marched to Berlin via Crampton's Gap |
November 2 |
Crossed the Potomac at Berlin on pontoon bridge |
November 3-4 |
Marched through Perceyville to Union |
November 5-6 |
Passed Upperville to camp at White Plains, on the railroad |
November 9 |
To New Baltimore |
November 10 |
Lieutenant Colonel Lemon died of his Crampton's Gap wound at Burkettsville, Maryland |
November 17 |
To Catlett's Station |
November 18 |
To Stafford Court House |
November 19 |
To Belle Plain Landing |
December 2 |
Major Hubbs promoted to lieutenant colonel with rank to November 24 |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.
The regiment was in support roles, helping to repel a Confederate assault on the New Jersey Brigade on the 13th, and lost 1 enlisted man killed and 3 wounded |
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January 2 |
Captain Russell Myers of Company G promoted to major |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations about Franklin's Crossing |
May 3 |
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks' Ford
The regiment lost 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 wounded, and 40 captured when surprised and cut off as rear guard at the ford. |
June 9 |
Mustered out , expiration of term, under Colonel Pinto, Lieutenant Colonel Hubbs, Major Myers. Three years men transferred to 121st Regiment New York Infantry. |