PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

55th Pennsylvania Regiment

55th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

• Indiana Democrat - 1862
  Casualties incurred on Edisto Island, South Carolina...
  
  
• Miner's Journal - 1865
  A record of the names of the sons of Schuylkill who died that their country might live....
  
  
• Miner's Journal - July 15, 1865
  The following soldiers from this County, died in prison at Andersonville, Ga....
  
  

55th PA Regiment Companies

• Field and Staff Officers
  


• Company A
  Cambria County
• Company B
  Robesonia, Berks County
• Company C
  Johnstown, Cambria County
• Company D
  Bedford County
• Company E
  Minersville, Schuylkill County
• Company F
  Indiana County
• Company G
  Harrisburg, Dauphin County
• Company H
  Bedford County
• Company I
  Blair and Bedford County
• Company K
  Bedford, Bedford County
• Unassigned
  Bedford, Bedford County
• Regimental History
  Bedford, Bedford County
• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

55th PA Regiment Prisoners of War

• POWs

Schuylkill County

55th PA Regiment Books

• Roster of the survivors of the 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: With a short history of its service

55th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• 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 & Battles - 1861

• At Fortress Monroe, Va., till December 8, 1861.
• Moved to Port Royal, S. C, December 8, and duty near Hilton Head, S.C., till February 25, 1862.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty at Edisto Island, S.C., till 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.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty at Port Royal Ferry near Beaufort, S.C., till 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.
• Battle of Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Before Petersburg June 15-18.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• 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 till 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 Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• At Appomattox Court House till April 17,
• And at Richmond till July.
• Duty in Virginia till August.
• Mustered out at Petersburg. Va., August 30, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost while in service 7 Officers and 201 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 268 Enlisted men by disease. Total 479.

55th PA Regiment Executions

• Murphy, James Jan 6, 1864 Firing Squad for Desertion
• March 27, 1865 Firing Squad for Desertion