UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS
33rd Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery
- Overview:
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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, Defences 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 Pocohontas on James River to January, 1865. Ferrero's Division, Defences of Bermuda Hundred, Va., to April, 1865. Dept. of Virginia to June, 1865.
- Service:
- Duty at Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, till February, 1864, and at Yorktown and Gloucester Point, Va., till 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 Pocohontas on James River till January, 1865. Duty in the Defences of Bermuda Hundred, Va., till April. Operations resulting in the fall of Petersburg and Richmond March 28-April 2. Duty at Petersburg till June. Mustered out June 25, 1865.
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 12 Enlisted men by disease.
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