33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry

33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Island Lake, Mich., May 13 to 20, 1898, with 44 officers and 978 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to Separate Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps, May 28
  • Assigned to Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, June 27

• Movements:
  • Left Island Lake May 28; arrived at Camp Alger, Ya., May 31
  • Left Oamp Alger June 22; arrived at Newport News, Va., June-23
  • Sailed from Newport News June 23; arrived at Siboney, Cuba, June 27
  • Participated in engagement at Aguadores July 1, and in the Santiago campaign
  • Companies A, B, C, D, F, H, I, K, L, and M sailed from Santiago on steamship "Harvard" August 21; arrived at Montauk Point, New York, August 26
  • Companies E and G sailed from Santiago August 23; arrived at Montauk Point August 26
  • Left Montauk Point September 2; arrived at Detroit, Mich., September 4, and furloughed for sixty days

Mustered out of service of the United States at Port Huron, Flint, Alpena, Bay City, Saginaw, Owasso, Cheboygan, Benton Harbor, Three Rivers, and Detroit, Mich., November 9, 1898, to January 6,1899, with 47 officers and 1,159 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 1. Enlisted men-killed in action, 2; wounded 10; died of wounds, 1; died of disease, 57; deserted, 1.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps