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Thirty-Second Indiana Infantry.--“First German Regt.”
Willich's Brigade —
T. J. Wood's Division--Fourth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 19 |
| Company | A | | 17 | 17 | | 14 | 14 | 149 |
| | B | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 14 | 14 | 120 |
| | C | 2 | 19 | 21 | | 12 | 12 | 117 |
| | D | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 14 | 14 | 111 |
| | E | | 16 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 144 |
| | F | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 5 | 5 | 115 |
| | G | | 19 | 19 | | 6 | 6 | 108 |
| | H | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 6 | 6 | 121 |
| | I | | 15 | 15 | | 10 | 10 | 147 |
| | K | | 15 | 15 | | 5 | 5 | 132 |
| Totals | 7 | 164 | 171 | 1 | 96 | 97 | 1,283 |
171 killed == 13.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 612; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 11.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Rowlett's Station, Ky. | 14 | Chickamauga, Ga. | 34 |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 20 | Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 17 |
| Siege of Corinth | 2 | Resaca, Ga. | 4 |
| Dog Walk, Ky., Oct. 9, 1862 | 1 | Pickett's Mills, Ga. | 22 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 25 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 12 |
| Liberty Gap, Tenn. | 15 | Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Salt River Bridge, Ky. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Rocky Face Ridge;
Cassville,
Dallas;
Peach Tree Creek; Paid Springs; Lovejoy's Station.
notes.--A German regiment, organized through the exertions of
Colonel Willich, an officer who had seen service in the German army, and who, also, achieved a brilliant success in the
War of the
Rebellion.
The regiment left
Indiana in September, proceeding to
Kentucky where it served for several months.
While on duty at Rowlett's Station, Ky., guarding a railroad bridge, it was attacked on December 17, 1861, by a superior force under
General Hindman, but succeeded in repulsing the attack.
The gallantry of the regiment in this affair elicited a special order from
General Buell, acknowledging the service performed.
The loss of the Thirty-second in that fight was 11 killed, 22 wounded, and 5 missing, out of 418 engaged.
In February, 1862, it moved to
Bowling Green,
Ky., and thence to
Nashville, where it remained a short time, after which it marched to
Shiloh, then in
Rousseau's Division.
Its loss at
Shiloh was 10 killed and 86 wounded. At
Stone's River,--then in
Johnson's Division — it lost 12 killed, 40 wounded, and 115 missing or captured; at Liberty Gap, 7 killed, and 19 wounded; at
Chickamauga, 21 killed, 81 wounded, and 20 missing. Upon the reorganization of the Fourth Corps, in October, 1863, it was assigned to
Willich's (1st) Brigade,
Wood's (3d) Division, Fourth Corps, in which command it fought at
Missionary Ridge,--where
Major Jacob Glass was killed,--and, also, in the
Atlanta campaign.
After the fall of
Atlanta, the regiment was ordered home for muster-out; the recruits and reenlisted men remaining in the field were firmed into a residuary battalion of four companies, which garrisonetd
Chattanooga until June, 1865.
