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33rd Infantry Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Officers of the 33rd USCT

Listing , by rank, of officers who served with the 33rd regiment

NPS - CWSS
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Regimental History

Regimental history of the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment-African Descent, predessor to the 33rd USCT
Organized February 8, 1864, from 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry. Attached to U.S. Forces, Port Royal Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1864. District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. of the South, to July, 1864. Folly Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South, to October, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South, to March, 1865. District of Savannah, Ga., and Dept. of the South, to January, 1866.

SERVICE: -- Duty at Port Royal Island, S.C., District of Beaufort, S.C., till July, 1864. Expedition to James Island, S.C., June 30-July 10. James Island near Sessionville, July 2. Duty on Folly and Morris Islands operating against Charleston, S.C., to November. Demonstration on Charleston & Savannah Railroad December 6-9. Devaux's Neck, December 6. Tillifinny Station, December 9. Ordered to Folly Island, December 9. Near Pocotaligo Road, December 20. At Pocotaligo, S.C., till February, 1865. Occupation of Charleston till March 8. Moved to Savannah, Ga., March 8, and duty ther till June 6. Moved to August, Ga. Duty there and at various points in the Dept. of the South till January, 1866. Mustered out January 31, 1866.

Source: Dyer's Compendium, p. 1729

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