Missouri 33rd Volunteer Infantry (Union)
10/18/62
Organized - Missouri 33rd Volunteer Infantry - Missouri
7/4/63
Battle - Helena - Helena-West Helena, Arkansas
Lt. Gen. Theophilus Holmes, Confederate commander in Arkansas, sought to relieve Union pressure on Vicksburg, Mississippi as the army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant besieged that strategic city. Holmes won approval for a plan to assault the Union-held river town of Helena, Arkansas, 170 miles north of Vicksburg, with a combined force of about 7,600 men. About 4,000 Union soldiers were in Helena under the command of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss. Four artillery batteries defended the town, surrounded on the la…READ MORE
4/9/64
Battle - Pleasant Hill - Desoto Parish, Louisiana; Sabine Parish, Louisiana
10/23/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Sylvester G. Hill
ColonelSylvester G. Hill
10/23/64
Leadership Change - Division - Colonel Joseph J. Woods
ColonelJoseph J. Woods
10/23/64
Battle - Westport - Westport, Missouri
The Battle of Westport, fought October 21-23, was the largest battle west of the Mississippi River and the decisive battle of Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's 1864 Missouri campaign. Directions guide the visitor to the first of twenty-five narrative markers on a 32-mile, self-guided automobile tour and a self-guided walking tour of Byram's Ford and the Big Blue Battlefield. Each marker provides directions to the next stop on the tour. A written brochure is available from the Battle of Westport Visitor Cen…READ MORE
12/15/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Sylvester G. Hill, and Colonel William R. Marshall
ColonelSylvester G. Hill
ColonelWilliam R. Marshall
12/15/64
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General John McArthur
Brigadier GeneralJohn McArthur
12/15/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Sylvester G. Hill
ColonelSylvester G. Hill
12/15/64
Battle - Nashville - Nashville, Tennessee
Despite a series of defeats in the closing days of November, 1864, Confederate Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood continued to drag his bloodied Army of Tennessee, approximately 30,000 strong, north towards Nashville. The city was protected by 55,000 Union soldiers, which should have precluded further offensive operations, but Hood was determined and his situation was dire. Hood reached Nashville on December 2nd and staked out a position south of the city, hoping to draw the Union forces into a costly attack. Ulys…READ MORE
4/9/65
Battle - Fort Blakeley - Baldwin County, Alabama
Although the harbor of Mobile Bay had been closed to blockade running traffic since mid-summer 1864 with Admiral David G. Farragut's victory there, the port city of Mobile still remained in Confederate control. In late March 1865, two Federal infantry columns converged on the defenses of the city at Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort. One force of 13,000 Union soldiers commanded by Gen. Frederick Steele moved west from Pensacola with orders to take Blakely from the rear. Union Gen. Edward R.S. Canby's Sixteent…READ MORE
8/10/65
Mustered Out - Missouri 33rd Volunteer Infantry - Missouri
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