The 33rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry

Infantry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 33rd Kentucky Infantry was organized at Munfordville, Kentucky

Munfordville, Kentucky

Munfordville is a city in and the county seat of Hart County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,563 at the 2000 census.-History:The city was once known as Big Buffalo Crossing. The current name came from Richard Jones Munford, who donated the land for development in 1816...

 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 13, 1862 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel (United States)

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 J. F. Lauck.

The regiment was attached to District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio

Department of the Ohio

The Department of the Ohio was an administrative military district created by the United States War Department early in the American Civil War to administer the troops in the Northern states near the Ohio River.General Orders No...

, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. Unattached, Munfordville, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio

Army of the Ohio

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, to August 1863. Unattached, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, to October 1863. District of South Central Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to January 1864. District of Southwest Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to April 1864.

The 33rd Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on April 1, 1864 when its members were consolidated with the 26th Kentucky Infantry

26th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry

The 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 26th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Owensboro, Kentucky July - November 1861 and mustered in at Nashville, Tennessee for a three year enlistment on...

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Detailed service

Companies C and G participated in the siege of Munfordville, Kentucky, and Woodsonville, Kentucky, September 13–17, 1862, and was captured. The regiment was on duty at Munfordville, and on the line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Lebanon Branch Railroad until April 1864.

See also

• List of Kentucky Civil War Units
• Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when he declared "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." In a September 1861 letter to Orville Browning, Lincoln wrote "I think to lose...