CHAPTER XIII.
PATRIOTISM OF SHELBY AND MOULTRIE COUNTIES.

THIRTY-SECOND INFANTRY REGIMENT
COL. JOHN LOGAN'S REGIMENT.

     This regiment was organized by Col. John Logan, at Camp Butler, Illinois, and mustered into the United States service December 31st, 1861.  The term of service was three years.  Of this regiment a large portion of company E, and a few recruits of company I, were recruited in Shelby county.  Alfred C. Campbell, of Moweaqua, was the first captain of company E.  The history of this regiment adds new lustre to the patriotism of Shelby county.  We give in these pages a few of the more important events in the history of the memorable Thirty-second.
     January 28th, 1862, the command was ordered to Cairo; February 2d, ordered to Bird's Point, Mo., and on the 8th February, proceeded up Tennessee river; 9th, arrived at Fort Henry; 23d, joined First Brigade, Col. I. C. Pugh commanding; Fourth Division, Gen. S. A. Hurlbut, commanding.  Proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, and on the 17th camped two miles from the Landing.  It bore a distinguished and honorable part in the battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862, losing forty killed, and two hundred wounded.  Was engaged in the advance on Corinth.  On the 5th of October, 1862, fought the battle of Metamora.  This regiment did good service here; seven killed and five wounded.  On the 8th of November, in a forced march southward from La Grange, surprised and captured over one hundred rebel cavalry at Lamar, and routed the enemy.  After many hard marches, part of the time being on short rations, in March, 1863, they moved to Memphis and remained until May11th, when they moved to Young's Point.  On the 15th joined the division ten mile below Vicksburg.  Thence to Grand Gulf, where they were detained a few days as a garrison.  June 12th, the post was abandoned, and the regiment joined the division on the lines around Vicksburg; engaged in the siege until June 27th, when Col. Logan, with his regiment, the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio, and one section of Artillery, was ordered to command the post at Warrenton, which was the extreme left of the line.  Rejoined brigade on July 4th, and on the 5th marched with Sherman's army toward Jackson  a very trying march.  After hard service and skirmishing, and the capture of a battery of nine pieces of artillery, on January 3d, 1864, moved to Vicksburg, where it was mustered as a Veteran organization.  Received furlough, March 16th, and on April 28th, re-assembled at Camp Butler, Illinois, and moved to Bird's Point, Mo.  May 8th, started for Clifton, Tenn., arriving there on the 15th of the same month, and on the seventeenth moved forward, via Pulaski, Tenn.; Huntsville and Decatur, Ala.; Rome and Kingston, Ga., joined General Sherman's army at Ackworth, June 11th, and the next day, June 12th, 1864, participated in the siege of Kenesaw Mountain.  The Seventeenth corps occupied the left of the line, and the Thirty-second Regiment occupied the exposed position on the advance July 2d.  Was transferred to right of line, on the 4th and 5th, and on the 5th, when the Fourteenth division assaulted the enemy's works, the Thirty-second was the first to plant its colors on the works.  July 18th, the regiment was transferred to the First brigade, and Col. Logan took command of the brigade.  While guarding supplies at Marietta, a party of fifty men, under Lieutenant Alexander Campbell, while foraging, after a spirited resistance, were captured, only nine escaping.  On the 3d , the enemy attacked the line near Kenesaw Mountain, and killed the captured twelve men.  The regiment remained near Marietta until the "march to the sea" began, when, on Nov. 13th, it moved from that place, and from Atlanta, Nov. 15th, 1864.  In the siege of Savannah Capt. Lawson and four men were wounded.  The regiment here suffered greatly from lack of food.  Remained in camp in Savannah, Ga., until Jan. 5th, 1865, when it embarked at Thunderbolt for Beaufort, S. C., disembarked 7th, and remained until February 1st.  On Feb. 3d, the division under command of Gen. Giles A. Smith, waded the Salkahatchie river, two miles wide and from two to five feet deep, and ice cold; and after a brief half hour's skirmishing on the opposite bank, compelled the enemy to evacuate their strong line of defence.  The regiment was at this time in the Third brigade, Gen. Belknap commanding.  Col. Logan was absent during these two campaigns, on court-martial duty, at Louisville, Ky., and Capt. Rider, afterward Lieut.-Colonel, commanded the regiment.  The Thirty-second took part in the grand review at Washington, May 24th, 1865.  Thence to Parkersburg, Va.; thence to Louisville; thence moved westward, via St. Louis and Fort Leavenworth, to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, arriving August 13th.  Returned to Fort Leavenworth Sept. 2d.  September 16th, mustered out there, and ordered to Camp Butler, Ill., for final payment and discharge.  It traveled while in the United States' service, 11,000 miles, and its record makes glorious a page of the history of the State.

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