The Civil War in the East

3rd Pennsylvania Reserves
(32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment)

 

The 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves lost 3 officers and 69 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 54 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Antietam (right).

Monument to the Third Pennsylvania Reserves at Antietam

1861

May 20

Organized at Philadelphia and moved to Easton, Pa.

May 21-July 22

Camp at Easton

July 22

Moved to Harrisburg, Pa.

July 28

Mustered into United States service under Colonel Horation G. Sickel, Lieutenant Colonel William S. Thompson and Major Richard H. Woolworth

 

Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Tennallytown, Md. Attached to 2nd Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division, Army of the Potomac.

Oct. 9

At Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va.

December 6

Expedition to Grinnell's Farm

1862

March

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

March 10-15

Advance on Manassas, Va.

April 9-19

McDowell's advance on Falmouth attached to 2nd Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

April - May

Duty at Fredericksburg

June 1

Major Richard Woolworth promoted to lieutenant colonel, 4th Pennsylvania Reserves

June 9-11

Moved to White House; attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 26

Battles of Mechanicsville

June 27

Gaines' Mill

June 30

Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale

July 1

Malvern Hill

July-August

At Harrison's Landing

July 9

Lieutenant Colonel Thompson resigned

August 1

Captain John Clark promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain William Briner of Company D to major

August 16-26

Movement to Join Pope, attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia

August 28

Battles of Gainesville

August 29

Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 6-24

Maryland Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.

September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Clark

September-October

Duty in Maryland

October 30-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February 6

Ordered to Washington, D.C. and duty there and in District of Alexandria attached to 2nd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, D.C

1864

January 6

Duty near Martinsburg, W. Va.

January 27

Operations in Hampshire and Hardy counties, W. Va.

February 7

Duty near Kearneysville, W. Va.

March 27

Near Harper's Ferry

April 3

Moved to Webster

April 22

Moved to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Dept. of West Virginia

May 2-19

Crook's Expedition to Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

May 9

Battle of Cloyd's Mountain

May 10

New River Bridge

May 10-19

Expedition to Meadow Bluff, Fayette County

May 12-13

Near Newport

June 4

Left front for Pittsburg, Pa.

June 8

Veterans and Recruits transferred to 54th Pennsylvania

June 17

Mustered out under Colonel Sickel, Lieutenant Colonel John Clark and Major William Briner