33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 33rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= September 3, 1861 to December 6, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
The 33rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Brains Regiment" or the "Normal Regiment," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 33rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on November 24, 1865 and discharged at Chicago, Illinois on December 6, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 2 officers and 56 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 250 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 309 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf3.htm#33rd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel Charles E. Hovey
*Colonel Charles E. Lippincott
*Colonel Isaac H. Elliott - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/033-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]
ee also
*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War
References
External links
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
* [http://www.mchistory.org/33rd_Infantry_Finding_Aid.html 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment of Volunteers, Company C Collection] at the McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, IL.
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