By John C. Rigdon
The Alabama thirty third Infantry Regiment was once geared up at Pensacola, Florida, in April, 1862. Its individuals have been raised in espresso, Butler, Dale, Montgomery, and Covington counties. The unit was once ordered to Mississippi, then Kentucky, the place it took an energetic half within the conflicts at Munfordville and Perryville. Brigaded lower than Generals wooden, Lowrey, and in 1865, Shelley, the thirty third participated within the campaigns of the military of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, moved with Hood to Tennessee, and fought at Bentonville. It misplaced eighty-two percentage of the five hundred engaged at Perryville, and pronounced a hundred casualties at Murfreesboro and 149 at Chickamauga. On December 14, 1863, the regiment totaled 536 males and 385 fingers. Many have been misplaced throughout the Atlanta crusade and of the 285 at Franklin, sixty-seven percentage have been disabled. only a few surrendered in North Carolina.
Companies Of The AL thirty third Infantry Regiment
Company A - espresso – Mason Creed Kimmey; wounded at Perryville.
Company B - Dale - W.E. Cooper; killed via railroad catastrophe. Charles H. Bryant; wounded at Murfreesboro.
Company C - Butler - James H. Dunklin; promoted. Wm. E. Dodson; killed at Kennesaw. Charles S. Linthicum.
Company ? - Montgomery - John C. Norman; resigned. Charles Waller; wounded at Murfreesboro; resigned. Joseph Wilson.
Company F - Covington - W. N. Brandon.
Company I - Dale - W.E. Cooper; killed through railroad catastrophe. Needham Hughes; captured at Nashville.
Company H - Butler - Thomas G. Pou; resigned. John F. Barganier; resigned. Wm. S. Sims; killed at Chickamauga. John Gamble; wounded at New wish and Columbus.
Company I "Zollilcoffer Avengers" - many males from Dale County
Company ok "Shorter Guards" - many males from Russell County