The 55th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 201 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 268 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862 |
November |
Organized at Harrisburg |
November 22 |
Left Camp Curtin for Fortress Monroe, Va. |
December 8 |
Attached to Sherman's South Carolina Expedition and moved to Port Royal, S. C. |
December |
Duty near Hilton Head, S.C. |
1863 |
February 25 |
Duty at Edisto Island, S.C., Dept. of the South |
March 29 |
Companies E, F and G attacked on Little Edisto |
April 18 |
Edisto Island (Detachment) |
July |
District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. South |
September |
District Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South |
October 21-23 |
Expedition up Broad River to Pocotaligo |
October 22 |
Caston's and Frampton's Plantations, Pocotaligo |
November-December |
Duty at Port Royal Ferry near Beaufort, S.C. |
1864 |
January 1 |
Regiment reenlisted |
January 22-
March 23 |
On furlough |
April 12 |
Embarked for Virginia, attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 5-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division. 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
.May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
May 17-28 |
Operations on the Bermuda Hundred front |
May 28-June 1 |
Moved to White House, then to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin. |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Support) |
September 28-30 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, north of James River |
October-December |
Duty in trenches before Richmond |
December 10 |
Signal Hill |
December |
Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
March 26-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-30 |
Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs |
April 2 |
Capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin and fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 |
Rice's Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 10-16 |
At Appomattox C. H. |
April 17 |
At Richmond |
May |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia |
July |
Duty in Virginia |
1865 |
August 30 |
Mustered out at Petersburg. Va.
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