CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
33rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
- Overview:
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33rd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at the old fair grounds at Raleigh, Norht
Carolina, in September, 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Iredell, Edgecombe,
Cabarrus, Wilkes, Gates, Hyde, Cumberland, Forsyth, and Greene. After fighting at New Bern, the unit moved to Virginia
and saw action at Hanover
Court House. It served under Generals Branch and Lane and participated in the campaigns
of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. Later it took its place
in the Petersburg trenches
and was involved in the Appomattox operations. This
regiment sustained 75 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 36 at Cedar Mountain, 8 at Second Manassas, and 41 at Fredericksburg. It lost forty-two
percent of the 480 engaged at Chancellorsville and twenty percent of
the 368 at Gettysburg. The
unit reported 4 killed and 19 wounded at Spotsylvania and 5 killed, 29
wounded, and 4 missing at Jericho Mills. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 11 officers and 108
men. The field officers were Colonels Clark M. Avery, Lawrence O. Branch, and Robert V.
Cowan; Lieutenant Colonels Robert F. Hoke and J.H. Saunders; and Majors William G. Lewis,
Thomas W. Mayhew, and James A. Weston.
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