Union Monuments, Massachusetts

33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

The monument to the 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is southeast of Gettysburg on Slocum Avenue (see map)

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Adin B. Underwood. It brought 562 men to the field.

Form the tablet on the front of the monument:

The
Thirty Third Massachusetts Infantry
Detached from the Second Brigade, Second
Division, Eleventh Corps on July 2nd, 1863.
After supporting the batteries in action on
Cemetery Hill, while in position in a line
extending westward from near this spot,
withstood and assisted in repulsing a charge
of the enemy's infantry in its front.
Loss in the battle eight killed, thirty six wounded.

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