United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 33rd Massachusetts Volunteer 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.
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1862
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| August 6 | Organized at Springfield under Colonel Alberto C. Maggi |
| 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 that 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 |
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1863
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| January 20 – 24 | “Mud March”, then at Falmouth |
| April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
| May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| June 9 |
Battle of Brandy StationCommanded by Colonel Adin B. Underwood. |
| June 11-July 24 | Gettysburg Campaign |
| July 1-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe 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 |
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1864
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| 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 – 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 |
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1865
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| 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 | Discharged from service |