Federal Regiment

132nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Organized: Harrisburg, PA; mustered in 8/19/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Harrisburg, PA 5/24/1863

Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. Richard A. Oakford
LCol. Vincent M. Wilcox

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

On the Antietam Campaign

Perspective of one of the men: "... they [Federal Divisions] launched repeated frontal attacks against a Confederate force deployed in defense of a sunken road which became known as 'Bloody Lane.' The 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry suffered crippling casualties as it attacked into the enemy's fire. Assistant Surgeon George W. Hoover had joined the regiment's medical staff directly from medical school, and had never even seen a gunshot wound until entering action that morning."

"His first patient was Captain Robert A. Abbott, who staggered back to the regimental aid station after a bullet virtually removed his lower jaw. Sheltered from the massed volleys of enemy musketry only by a haystack, Surgeon Hoover demonstrated remarkable courage and composure as he examined his first surgical patient and then saved him from drowning in his own blood by halting the hemorrhage via deft work with scalpel and sutures. Captain Abbott was but one of the 114 men wounded in the regiment on that morning as Surgeon Hoover became a veteran battlefield physician within a few hours as he worked tirelessly while under fire."
(from US Army)

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #6: French's Division Hits the Sunken Road (9-10 am)
Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)
Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #40: French's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM
Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #116, cont: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #41: Kimball's Brigade, French's Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM

References & Notes

Hoover anecdote online from the US Army Medical Department Regiment.

We have 106 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Adams, Henry B.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Arnwine, Sylvester W.	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Flick, Charles	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Gibson, John	KIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Hassenplug, J. M.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hillner, Samuel	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hummel, Hiram	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Klase, Daniel J. P.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Leichow, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Long, Jacob	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Morris, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Ringler, William A.	WIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Vanronk, Daniel	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Vincent, Henry
B	Pvt	Bullock, Willard E.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Carney, George A.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cobb, Seth A.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cole, Benjamin V.	KIA 09/17
B	Corp	Dixon, Freeman H.	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Evans, Charles	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Farnam, Elisha	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Gilmore, Otis	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Gregory, Alonzo E.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hanyon, Benjamin H.	AWOL 09/17
B	Pvt	Little, Albanus	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Miner, Wilson Dewit	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Ornt, Henry	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Parrish, Rufus F.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Pedrick, Elisha	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Prevost, Byron	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Reynolds, William H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Roberts, Milot	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Smith, John H.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Stark, Harman	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Teneyck, John H	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Turner, Henry B.	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Warner, George W.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Ayers, Allen M.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Biddle, Wallace	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Blanchard, Oliver B.	MWIA 09/17
C	Corp	Blanchard, Samuel Enos	WIA 09/17
C	Lt	Cranmer, Anson C.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Haxton, William W.	AWOL 09/17
D	Corp	Burnham, Lincoln Nathaniel	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fields, George	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Gerould, George C.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McGregor, John	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Fisher, Clod'y S. M.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hartman, Isaiah S.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Lazarus, William	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Whitenite, Amasa	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Breneiser, Oliver	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Clewell, Joseph L.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Drumbore, Joseph	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Frantz, William	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Hontz, Joseph	WIA 09/17
F	Lt	Lacier, Jacob D.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Moyer, Charles F.	MWIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Mussleman, Oliver S.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Rex, Aaron	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Schultz, John	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Sinker, Charles	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Solt, Francis	Died (d) 09/14
G	Capt	Abbott, Robert A.	WIA 09/17
G	Lt	Dolan, John C.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Fry, Conrad	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Koons, Willoughby	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Krum, William F.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Mayer, Mannes	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	McCullough, Michael	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	McGovern, John	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Melick, Edward P.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Ruch, Jonathan C.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Shafer, David	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Sprowl, Thomas	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Williams, John T. C.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Winterstein, Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Cool, Hiram	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Richards, James M.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Roup, Josiah G.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Sterne, George F.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Troup, John	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Ames, Moses E.	KIA 09/17
I	Capt	Archbald, Jr., James
I	Pvt	Bass, Brooks A.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cator, George H.	MWIA 09/17
I	Corp	Gardner, Daniel S.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jones, Roderick	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Kilmer, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Maycock, James J.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Reed, Daniel	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Smith, Richard A.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	West, John B.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Boon, Charles K.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bulmer, Charles	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Clapp, Austin F.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Eschenbach, Jacob	KIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Hower, Martin L.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Milligan, Jephtha	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Sherwood, Obadiah	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Sparks, Allen	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Albright, Charles
F&S	Lt	Hitchcock, Frederick Lyman
F&S	ASrg	Hoover, George W.
F&S	Col	Oakford, Richard Adolphus	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Wilcox, Vincent Meigs

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