UNION PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS
4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (33rd Volunteers)
- Overview:
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Organized at Harrisburg July 17, 1861. Moved to Washington, D. C., thence to Tennallytown, Md. Attached to 2nd Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Diviston, Army of the Potomac. to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division. 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to January, 1864. Dept. of West Virginia to April. 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to June, 1864.
- Service:
- Duty at Tennallytown, Md., till October 10, and at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., till March, 1862. Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6, 1861. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862. McDowell's advance on Falmouth, Va., April 9-19. Duty at Fredericksburg till June. Moved to White House June 9-11. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to join Pope August 16-26. Battles of Gainesville August 28. Groveton August 29. Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-24. Battles of South Mountain September 14; Antietam September 16-17. Duty in Maryland till October. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Ordered to Washington, D. C., February 6, and duty there and in the District of Alexandria till January 6, 1864. Duty near Martinsburg, W. Va., till January 27. Operations in Hampshire and Hardy counties January 27-February 7. Duty near Kearneysville till March 27. Moved to Webster, thence to the Kanawha Valley April 22. Crook's Expedition to Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 2-19. Battle of Cloyd's Mountain May 9. New River Bridge May 10. Expedition to Meadow Bluff May 10-19. Near Newport May 12-13. Left front for Philadelphia via Pittsburg, Pa., June 4. Mustered out June 17, 1864. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 54th Pennsylvania June 8, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 76 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 60 Enlisted men by disease. Total 139.
Predecessor unit:
PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS
33rd REGIMENT INFANTRY. 4th RESERVES INFANTRY.
(See 4th Reserves Infantry.)
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