heart is doomed to fail, I pray
heaven may let me fall with it,
while my face is toward the
enemy and my arm battling for
that which I know to be right."
Martin Wood
32nd Infantry Regiment was assembled at Iuka and mustered into
Confederate service at Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the summer of
1862. Its members were recruited in Tishomingo, Lee, Prentiss, and
Alcorn counties. The unit was assigned to General S.A.M. Wood's and
Lowrey's Brigade and participated in the difficult campaigns of the Army
of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee,
and saw action in North Carolina. During the Murfreesboro Campaign this
unit was detailed to guard the stations and bridges on the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad. For a time the regiment was consolidated with the
45th Regiment and in the fight at Chickamauga lost 25 killed and 141
wounded and at Tunnell Hill reported 18 casualties. In December the
32nd/45th totalled 515 men and 387 arms. At the Battle of Atlanta the
32nd had 18 killed, 45 wounded, and 23 missing. Only a remnant
surrendered in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Mark P.
Lowrey and William H.H. Tison, and Majors F.C. Karr and J.W. Swinney.
Thirty-second Regiment,
Mississippi Infantry,
March 1862-April 1864
