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B. Robinson reenlisted as veterans and served until July 20th, 1865, participating in all the campaigns and battles of the regiment for four years and until the last shot was fired.
     After remaining a short time at Camp Bartley the regiment was transferred to Camp Dennison, where it was equipped, armed and ordered to the front, joining the Union forces at Cheat Mountain Summit, West Virginia, on the 3rd of October.  In December it accompanied General Milroy in the movement on Camp Alleghany, losing on this occasion four killed and fourteen wounded.  After this expedition the regiment spent the winter in camp at Beverly, and in the spring of 1862 took part in the actions against Camp Alleghany, Huntsville and McDowell.  In the engagement at Bull Pasture Mountain, on the 8th of May, when the Union Army fell back to Franklin, closely followed by the enemy, the 32nd was the last regiment to leave the field, and lost on this occasion six killed and fifty-three wounded.  While at Franklin it was transferred to General Schenck's brigade, and was with General Fremont in the Shenandoah Valley and shared in the engagements at Cross Keys and Port Republic on the 8th andv9th of June.  Returning up the valley it remained at Winchester, Va., until September 1st, then moved to Harpers Ferry, losing 150 men in the engagement on the 14th.
     In January, 1863, the regiment was ordered South, joined the army at Memphis, Tenn., and was with the army under Grant in his advance in the rear of Vicksburg, taking part in the action at Port Gibson and in the battles of Raymond, Jackson and Champion Hills.  In the last-named engagement it made a bayonet charge and captured the First Mississippi rebel battery.  For this feat of gallantry the battery was turned over to Company F of this regiment, which became the 26th Ohio Battery.
     In the assault upon Vicksburg. in May, 1863, the regiment was in the front line of the forces operating against that rebel stronghold, and it, with the Fourth Division, Seventeenth Corps.  General J. A. Logan commanding, was detailed to take possession at the surrender.

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     The 32nd lost in this campaign and siege 225 men.  In July, 1863, the regiment moved with Stevenson to Monroe, La., and in October accompanied McPherson to Brownsville, Miss. In February, 1864, it operated under Sherman at Meridian, then returned to Vicksburg, reenlisted, and after the furlough home joined Sherman's army at Acworth, Ga., on the 10th of June. It was in the assault on Kenesaw Mountain, on the 27th of June, and at Nicojack Creek on the 10th of July.  In the fighting around Atlanta on the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 28th the 32nd took an active part, losing more than half its numbers.
     After the fall of Atlanta the regiment joined in the pursuit of Hood, marched with Sherman to the sea, and through the Carolinas, and on the 20th and 21st of March, 1865, took part in the engagement at Bentonville, then moved with the National forces to Raleigh, and was present at Johnston's surrender.  Marched through Richmond to Washington and took part in the grand review before the President and his cabinet.  After which it moved to Louisville, Ky., was mustered out of the service July 20th, then proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, where the men received their final discharge on the 25th day of July, 1865.
     It is claimed that the 32nd Regiment lost and received more men than any other from Ohio. Company B entered the field in September, 1861, 108 strong, and during the war received sixty-eight recruits, making the total enlistments 176. The company lost, while in the field, ten killed and died of wounds, eleven wounded, seventeen died of disease, and seven taken prisoners.
     Russell B. Bennett, Chaplain of the 32nd, was known in the Seventeenth Army Corps as the "Fighting Chaplain."  He not only believed in the efficacy of prayer, but also believed in the efficacy of shot and shell, and instead of remaining in the rear during an engagement, he was always up in the front line, not only to minister to the wounded and dying, but, with gun in hand, taking his place in the ranks and encouraging the soldiers by his coolness and bravery.

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     Of the many instances in which he rendered good services during a battle we give one as related by the boys of the regiment:
     On the day the brave and gallant McPherson fell (July 22nd, 1864), the Seventeenth Corps was hotly engaged.  The 32nd Regiment was flanked on all sides and was compelled to change front several times, not knowing in what direction to next look for the enemy.
     At one time, during a few moments' lull in the battle, the 32nd was lying down in the edge of a cornfield waiting for the next attack. The Chaplain, cautioning the boys to lie very still and protect themselves as best they could, advanced into the cornfield to make a reconnoissance, and, mounting a stump some forty or fifty yards in front of the line, discovered the battle line of the enemy rapidly advancing, and moving back to his regiment passed the word along the line that the enemy was close upon them.  Then, taking the musket of William B. Mitchell of Company B —brother to John and James Mitchell of Marysville (both deceased) — he fired on the advancing line.  Mitchell, lying upon the ground, would rapidly reload the gun, and again Bennett would fire, and all the time exhorting the boys to "lie low" until the enemy were close upon them, then to "fire low."
     All this time he stood erect, not seeming to have any thought of his own safety, but only solicitous for the soldiers of the regiment, whom he loved so dearly. Mitchell was killed as he lay on the ground, and his body falling into the hands of the enemy, was never recovered.  Bennett was universally respected and loved by all the officers and soldiers of the regiment, and today the boys all have a good word for Chaplain Bennett, who died a few years ago.
     The regiment has to its credit twenty-two important battles, besides many skirmishes.  More than 2,500 soldiers served in the regiment and 560 were mustered out at the close of the war, and the loss in killed and died of wounds and disease was two hundred and forty-nine.