Daniel M.
Phillips
33rd Alabama Infantry, CSA.
Private enlisted on March 11, 1862 in Clopton, Al.
Daniel was 18 years old at enlistment, he died October 26, 1862 of wounds he received in Battle at
Perryville KY.
Decease claim was filed 2/17/63 by R.R. Phillips, father. Born 1844 in Barbour County, AL.
He had no wife/children. Witness to decease claim: Isaac Childress." Daniel was the son of
Robert Reliford Phillips and Dorcas Matilda Eldridge. His brothers Nathan Richard and
Isham James Lunsford Phillips and his Uncle Thomas Peter Cumings Phillips also served in
the War between the States.
33rd Alabama Infantry CSA
The Thirty-third was organized at Pensacola in April 1862, and proceeded to Corinth just
after the battle of Shiloh. Placed in the brigade commanded by Col. Hawthorn of Arkansas,
the regiment remained at Tupelo till the Kentucky campaign was entered on. It was part of
the brigade of Gen. Wood of Lauderdale, and in Buckner's division, and was present at the
capture of Mumfordsville. At Perryville the Thirty-third received its first terrible lesson in the
horrors of battle, for it entered that conflict about 500 strong, and came out with 88 rank and
file, the others having fallen in the bloody struggle. It came out of Kentucky with the army,
and at Murfeesboro the loss of the regiment was comparatively large, for it was in Cleburne's
division. The remainder of the winter was spent in camps near Tullahoma, and the regiment
retired behind the Tennessee during the summer. In the grand forward movement on the
enemy's line at Chicamauga, the Thirty-third suffered very heavily. Gen. M.P. Lowery of
Mississippi having relieved Gen. Wood of the command of the brigade - Sixteenth,
Thirty-third Mississippi regiments, and Gibson's (Ala.) and Newman's (Tenn.) battalions - the
Thirty-third was effectively engaged at Mission Ridge without loss. It was part of the wall of
fire that checked the exultant federals at Ringgold Gap, where it lost but one man. The
regiment passed the winter at Dalton, and was in the incessant battle from there to Atlanta,
fighting during the day and entrenching at night, and losing many by the casualties of battle,
particularly at New Hope, and around Atlanta. Having followed Gen. Hood into Tennessee,
it moved to the assault of the enemy's works at Franklin, with 285 men, and lost over
two-thirds of them, mostly killed. Transferred to North Carolina, the Thirty-third took part in
the operations there, and a remnant was there surrendered.
Source:
Willis Brewer's Alabama: Her History,
Resources War Record,
and Public Men From 1540 to 1872
Web home page of the 33rd at:
http://members.aol.com/wwhitby/33rd.html;
Family historian - Ruby Smith Rolland
Rozelle.
