32nd Maine Infantry Regiment
The 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union army during the American Civil War. 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
- Campaign from the Rapidan Camp to the James River, Virginia
- Battle of the Wilderness, Locust Grove, Virginia
- Battle of the Spotsylvania Court House
- Battle of North Anna, North Anna River, Virginia
- Line of the Pamunkey, Virginia
- Battle of Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
- Battle of Cold Harbor, Mechanicsville, Virginia
- Battle of Bethesda Church,
- Siege of Petersburg
- Battle of the Crater, Petersburg
- First Battle of the Weldon Railroad
- Battle of Poplar Springs Church, Virginia
- Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, Virginia
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.Commanders
- Colonel Mark Fernald Wentworth, regiment commander, wounded at the Battle of the Crater.