33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment

Service

Detailed service

1861

• Left Ohio for Kentucky September 13 and joined Gen. Nelson at Maysville, Ky.
• Capture of Hazel Green, Ky., October 23, 1861.
• Operations against Williams' Invasion of the Bluegrass Region, Ky., November–December.
• Action at Ivy Mountain November 8.
• Piketon, Ky., November 8–9.
• Duty at Bacon Creek until February 1862.

  1862

• Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., February 10–15
• Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 22–25.
• Occupation of Nashville February 25 to March 17.
• Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., March 17–19.
• Occupation of Shelbyville and Fayetteville and advance on Huntsville, Ala., March 29-April 11.
• Capture of Huntsville April 11.
• Advance to Decatur, Ala., April 11–14.
• Duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad until August.
• Action at Battle Creek June 21.
• Moved to Bridgeport and occupy Fort McCook at mouth of Battle Creek. Action at Battle Creek August 27, and at Bridgeport August 27.
• March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 28-September 26.
• Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15.
• Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8.
• March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26.
• Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26–30.
• Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863.

  1863

• Duty at Murfreesboro until June.
• Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
• Battle of Hoover's Gap June 24–26.
• Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16.
• Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22.
• Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 11.
• Battle of Chickamauga September 19–21.
• Rossville Gap September 21.
• Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23.
• Reopening Tennessee River October 26–29.
• Brown's Ferry October 27.
• Chattanooga–Ringgold campaign November 23–27.
• Orchard Knob November 23.
• Battle of Lookout Mountain November 23–24.
• Battle of Missionary Ridge November 25.
• Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.

  1864

• Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22–27, 1864.
• Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23–25.
• Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8.
• Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8–11.
• Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 9.
• Battle of Resaca May 14–15.
• Advance on Dallas May 18.
• Battle of Cassville May 19-22.
• Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
• Pickett's Mill May 27.
• Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
• Pine Hill June 11–14.
• Lost Mountain June 15–17.
• Battle of Kennesaw Mountain June 27.
• Ruff's Station July 4.
• Chattahoochie River July 5–17.
• Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18.
• Battle of Peachtree Creek July 19–20.
• Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
• Utoy Creek August 6–7.
• Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30.
• Red Oak August 29.
• Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
• Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3.
• Cassville November 7.
• March to the Sea November 15-December 10.
• Siege of Savannah December 10–21.

  1865

• Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
• Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro, N.C., March 16.
• Battle of Bentonville March 19–21.
• Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
• Advance on Raleigh April 10–14.
• Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
• Bennett's House April 26.
• Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 20-May 19.
• Grand Review of the Armies May 24.
• Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 6.

  Casualties

Commanders

• Colonel Joshua Woodrow Sill
• Colonel Oscar Fitzallen Moore
• Captain Ephraim J. Ellis - commander at the battle of Stones River

  Notable members

• Corporal Daniel Allen Dorsey - Medal of Honor recipient
• Corporal Martin Jones Hawkins - Medal of Honor recipient
• Private Jacob Wilson Parrott, Company K - first Medal of Honor recipient
• Private William Henry Harrison Reddick - Medal of Honor recipient
• Private Samuel Robertson - Medal of Honor recipient
• Private Samuel Slavens - Medal of Honor recipient
• Private John Wollam - Medal of Honor recipient