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��Champaign County, as Assistant Surgeon. On the 27th of April, the regiment embarked at Cairo with its division and corps, on transports, lauding at Clifton. From there it marched to Ackworth, Ga., where it joined Gen. Sherman on the 10th of June, 1864. The Thirty-second was identified with the movements of the Sev- enteenth Army Corps in Sherman's advance against Atlanta ; participated in the assault on Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, and Nicka- jack Creek, near Howett's Ferry, on the Chatta- hoochie River, July 10, 1864. Also in the bat- tles of July 20, 21, 22 and 28, before Atlanta, and lost more than half its number in killed and wounded. In the affair of the 22d of July, Adjt. A. G. Phillips, of Mansfield, Ohio, was killed while encouraging the men, and Capts. Huber and Potts were severely wounded. The regiment was commanded, in those battles, by Lieut. Col. J. J. Hibbetts, Col. Potts being in command of the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. (On the 12th of January, 1865, Col. Potts was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, on the special rec- ommendation of Gen. Sherman, for gallantry before Atlanta, July 22, 1864.)

" After the fall of Atlanta, the Thirty-second moved with the arm}^ in pursuit of Hood, after which it rejoined Gen. Sherman and accompa- nied him on his march to the sea.

"On the 10th of December. 1864, the Thirty- second was in the advance of the army, and contributed its share toward driving the enemy into his works at Savannah. In this expedition, the Savannah & Charleston Railroad was cut, thus destroj'ing the enemy's communications with Charleston. On the 21st of December, the regiment entered Savannah with the army, and went into camp near Fort Thvmderbolt. After the review by Gen. Sherman of the whole arm}^, the Seventeenth Army Corps went by transports to Beaufort, S. C. ; thence to Poca-

��toligo Station, on the Savannah & Charleston Railroad.

" On the 1st of February, 1865, the regiment moved with the army through the Carolinas, and, with the Thirteenth Iowa, was the first regiment to enter Columbia. (Col. Hibbetts, with a mounted detachment of the regiment, entered and captured Fa3'etteville, N. C, March 10, 1865, after a severe fight with Wade Hamp- ton's cavalry.)

"On the 20tli and 21st of March, it was en- gaged with the enemj' at Bentonville, N. C, where, on the 21st, Capt. D. R. Potts, Aid-de- Camp to Gen. B. F. Potts, was killed while gallantly leading the skirmish line of the bri- gade, in an assault on the enemy's works.

" The regiment came out of the woods to see their friends at Goldsboro, moved '^ith the army to Raleigh, N. C., and was present at the surrender of Johnston's army. May 1, 1865. It marched with the army through Richmond, Va., to Washington City, where it participated in the grand review before President Johnson and his Cabinet.

" The regiment remained in camp near Wash- ington until June 8, 1865, when it took the cars for Louisville. It lay there until Jul}^ 20, when it was mustered out of the service and proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, at which place the men received their final discharge Jul}^ 26, 1865.

"During the stay of the Thirt^'-second in Washington, Lieut. Col. Hibbetts was commis- sioned Colonel, vice B. F. Potts, promoted ; Capt. S. Guthrie was made Lieutenant Colonel and Capt. Isaac B. Post, of Companj- C, pro- moted to Major, vice Crumbacker, resigned.

" The Thirty-second entered the field Septem- ber 15, 1861, 950 strong, and during the war re- ceived more than 1,600 recruits. Only 565 re- mained at its muster-out. It is believed that the regiment lost and recruited more than any other from Ohio."'

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