The Civil War in the East

33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

The 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 104 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 77 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1862

August 6

Organized at Springfield

August 14-17

Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to Military District of Washington for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. and Provost at Alexandria, Va.

September 19

Major Bates, former Captain in the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, returned to the regiment as colonel

October 10

Moved to Fairfax Station and then to Fairfax Court House. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

November 1-20

Moved to Warrenton, then to Germantown

December 10-15

March to Fredericksburg

December 15

Camp at Falmouth

1863

January 20 - 24

"Mud March", then at Falmouth

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 9

Brandy Station and Beverly Ford

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-4

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Adin B. Underwood. It brought 562 men to the field.

 

From the monument: "Detached from the Second Brigade, Second Division, Eleventh Corps on July 2nd, 1863. After supporting the batteries in action on Cemetery Hill, while in position in a line extending westward from near this spot, withstood and assisted in repulsing a charge of the enemy's infantry in its front. In the battle eight killed, thirty six wounded."

August 3 -
September 24

At Bristoe Station

September 24-
October 3

Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. and attached to Army of the Cumberland

October 25-28

March along line of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad to Lookout Valley, Tenn.

October 28-29

Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn.

November 23-27

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

November 24-25

Tunnel Hill

November 25

Mission Ridge

November 28-
December 17

March to relief of Knoxville and duty in Lookout Valley

1864

April

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

May to September

Atlanta Campaign

May 5-11

Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 8-9

Buzzard's Roost Gap

May 14-15

Battle of Resaca

May 19

Cassville

May 22-25

Advance on Dallas

May 25

Battle of New Hope Church

May 25-June 5

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

June 10-July 2

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain

June 11-14

Pine Hill

June 15-17

Lost Mountain

June 15

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

June 17

Muddy Creek

June 19

Noyes Creek

June 22

Kolb's Farm

June 27

Assault on Kenesaw

July 4

Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground

July 5-17

Chattahoochie River

July 17 to August 27

Duty as Division Train Guard

July 19-20

Battle of Peachtree Creek

July 22-August 25

Siege of Atlanta

August 26-
September 2

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge

September 2-
November 15

Occupation of Atlanta

November 15-
December 10

March to the sea

December 10-21

Siege of Savannah

1865

January to April

Campaign of the Carolinas

February 2

Lawtonville, S. C,

March 14

Skirmish, Raleigh Road, near Fayetteville, N. C.

March 16

Averysboro

March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville

March 24

Occupation of Goldsboro

April 10-13

Advance on Raleigh

April 14

Occupation of Raleigh

April 26

Bennett's House, surrender of Johnston and his army.

April 29-May 20

March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va.

May 24

Grand Review, then duty at Washington

June 11

Mustered out

July 2, 1865

Discharged from service