CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
33rd Regiment, Virginia Infantry
- Overview:
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33rd Infantry Regiment was organized during the early summer of 1861 with men from the
counties of Hampshire, Shenandoah, Frederick, Hardy, Page, and Rockingham. It became part of
the Stonewall Brigade and served under T.J. Jackson, R.B. Garnett, Winder, Paxton, J.A. Walker,
and W. Terry. The regiment was active at First Manassas, First Kernstown, and in Jackson's Valley
Campaign. Later it participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the
Seven Days' Battles to Cold
Harbor, then it moved with Early to the Shenandoah Valley and fought in numerous conflicts
around Appomattox. The unit
lost 45 killed and 101 wounded at First Manassas, and there were 59 disabled of the 275 engaged
at First Kernstown. It sustained 33 casualties at Malvern Hill, 15 at Cedar Mountain, 105 at Second Manassas,
19 in the Maryland Campaign, and 66 at Chancellorsville. Twenty-three percent of
the 236 at Gettysburg were
killed, wounded, or missing. Only 1 officer and 18 men surrendered. The field officers were
Colonels Arthur C. Cummings, Frederick W.M. Holliday, Edwin G. Lee, John F. Neff, and
Abraham Spengler; Lieutenant Colonels George Huston and John R. Jones; and Majors Jacob B.
Golladay and Philip T. Grace.
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