33rd New York (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Buffalo, N.Y., and mustered in at Elmira, N.Y., September 4, 1863. Left State for Washington, D.C., September 4, 1863. Attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, to February, 1864. United States Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, to May, 1864. Unattached Artillery, 10th Army Corps, to June, 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, to August, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps, to October, 1864. Separate Brigade, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina. Garrison at Fort Pocahontas on James River to January, 1865. Ferrero's Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va., to April, 1865, Dept. of Virginia to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, until February, 1864, and at Yorktown and Gloucester Point, Va., until May, 1864. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 5. Swift Creek May 8-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-June 15. Action at Bermuda Hundred June 2. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Assaults on Petersburg June 15-18, 1864. Assigned to duty as Garrison Artillery at Fort Pocahontas on James River until January, 1865. Duty in the Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va., until April. Operations resulting in the fall of Petersburg and Richmond March 28-April 2. Duty at Petersburg until June. Mustered out June 25, 1865.
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 12 Enlisted men by disease.
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Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 1402-1403)
