55th Pennsylvania Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Harrisburg November, 1861. Left Camp Curtin for Fortress Monroe, Va., November 22. Attached to Sherman's South Carolina Expedition to February, 1862. Edisto Island, S.C., Dept. of the South, to July, 1862. District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. South, to September. 1862. District Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division. 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia, to August, 1865.
SERVICE.--At Fortress Monroe, Va., until December 8, 1861. Moved to Port Royal, S. C, December 8, and duty near Hilton Head, S.C., until February 25, 1862. Duty at Edisto Island, S.C., until October. Companies "E," "F" and "G" attacked on Little Edisto March 29. Edisto Island April 18 (Detachment). Expedition up Broad River to Pocotaligo October 21-23. Caston's and Frampton's Plantations, Pocotaligo, October 22. Duty at Port Royal Ferry near Beaufort, S.C., until January, 1864. Regiment reenlisted January 1, and on furlough January 22-March 23. Embarked for Virginia April 12. Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond May 5-28. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 14-16. Operations on the Bermuda Hundred front May 17-28. Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor May 28-June 1.
- June 1-12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign
- June 1-12, 1864 -
Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia
- June 1-12, 1864 -
Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (Support). Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, north of James River September 28-30. Duty in trenches before Richmond until March, 1865. Signal Hill December 10, 1864. Appomattox Campaign March 26-April 9. Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs March 29-30. Capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin and fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Rice's Station April 6. Appomattox C. H. April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. At Appomattox C. H. until April 17, and at Richmond until July. Duty in Virginia until August. Mustered out at Petersburg. Va., August 30, 1865.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 932, 941, 1593)
- Fox, William F. 1840-1909. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, With Full and Exhaustive Statistics Compiled From the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington. Albany: Albany Pub. Co., 1889. (Pages 3, 13)