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The 33rd Regiment Today
The 33rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry today is an authentic Civil War Living-History organization based out of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio, representing the men that served in the 33rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. We strive to recreate the soldier of the 33rd OVI through living history demonstrations and battle reenactments. The men of the 33rd OVI today are dedicated to the preservation and education of  the life of the soldier in the original 33rd OVI, and the Western Federal soldier.




"The Acorn Boys" Mess
As "messes" were common in the Army from 1861-1865, (groups of soldiers formed as a small family to help each other with daily camp duties of cooking, washing, etc..) "The Acorn Boys" Mess was officially organized in the Spring of 2005 by members of the 33rd OVI, depicting the life of the men that served in the 14th Army Corps-"The Acorn Boys".

These men were so named the "Acorn Boys" due to the poor supply lines of the Union Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga, Tennessee after the battle of Chickimauga in 1863. The soldiers of the 14th Corps were forced to forage for food from local crops and nuts. After Gen. Ullyses S. Grant saw the men cooking acorns, the nickname of"The Acorn Boys" was forever etched into history.  Today the soldiers of the "Acorn Boys" Mess take great pride in representing not only the men of the 33rd OVI, but all soldiers that served in the 14th Corps.
A Brief History of the Original
33rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Organized at Portsmouth, Ohio in August, 1861, under the command of Colonel Joshua W. Sill, it was in the Kentucky campaign under General Nelson and with Mitchell's operations during the spring of 1862. In the fall of the same year it lost one-third of its number at the Battle of Perryville, KY. On the organization of the Army of the Cumberland, this regiment was assigned to General George H. Thomas' command, and suffered severely at the Battle of Chickamauga and the Battle of Missionary Ridge. In 1864 the 33rd Regiment served in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Corps "The Acorn Boys", and was in the principal battles of the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Carolinas Campaign. This Regiment was truly one of "Sherman's Bummers" The 33rd was made famous by the Andrews Raid of April 12, 1862, when several members of Col. Joshua Sill's Brigade, mostly men from Ohio, including the 33rd, were assigned a secret mission to capture a Confederate locomotive "The General" in an effort to disrupt the vital Western &  Atlantic Railroad, which ran from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were pursued by other locomotives, The "Texas", and the raiders were eventually captured and executed as spies. The event was known as "The Great Locomotive Chase". Eight men from the 33rd that participated in the raid became the very first recipients of the Medal of Honor. The 33rd O.V.I. was finally mustered out of service at Louisville, Ky., in July, 1865.
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