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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

Fifty-fifth Regiment, Field and Staff Officers

55th PA Regiment Officers

Colonel
Richard White

Lieutenant Colonel
Frank T. Bennett
James Metzger

Major
John H. Filler
George H. Hill

Adjutant
James Metzger
Solomon S, Metzger
John Gotshall

Quartermaster
Frederick M. George
James Driskel

Surgeon
David Merritt
Jeremy B. Brandt

Assistant Surgeon
J. Sylvester Ramsey
Jeremy B. Brandt
Henry C. Christy
Charles F. Lauer
Ovid M. Johnson
John Noetling
Samuel S. Boyer

Chaplain
John Mc Cosker

Sergeant Major
Henry W. Fox
William H. Shorb
William W. Moore
John C. Geyer
William A. Gilbert

Quartermaster Sergeant
John Lynch
Martin V. Sorber
Daniel M. Wonders

Commissary Sergeant
John H. Kennedy
John Houston
Samuel Moorhead
William M. Walker

Hospital Sergeant
Joseph Keeffe
Joseph W. Hughes
Peter Lightner

Principal Musician
William R. Miller
Alexander C. Mower
Neal S. McLay
John C. Smith

Roster Source: Bates, Samuel P. (Samuel Penniman), 1827-1902.: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.

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