Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. FIFTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. WHITE'S BRIGADE — AMES'S DIVISION — TENTH CORPS. COL. RICHARD WHITE. 208 killed = II.8 per cent. Total killed and wounded, 782 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 96. BATTLES. Edisto Island, S. C • Pocotaligo, S. C 6 Swift Creek, Va 6 Drewry's Bluff, Va 58 Bermuda Hundred, Va 10 Cold Harbor, Va 41 Picket, S. C., March 29,1862 i Present, also, at Appomattox. K. & M.W. BATTLES. K. & M.W. 2 Petersburg, Va. (assault, June 15, 1864) 46 Petersburg Trenches, Va 12 Chaffin's Farm, Va 15 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 30, 1865 6 Fall of Petersburg, Va 2 Rice's Station, Va i Place unknown 2 NOTES. —Organized at Harrisburg, Pa. Leaving the State November 22, 1861, it went to Fort Monroe ; thence, after a short stay, it proceeded to Hilton Head, S. C., and in February, 1862, was ordered to Edisto Island. The regiment was engaged in the battle of Pocotaligo, October 22, 1862, after which it was stationed for fourteen months at Beaufort, S. C. It reenlisted in January, 1864, and went home on a veteran furlough, returning in March with enough recruits to fill the ranks to the maximum. It embarked in the following month for Virginia, where it joined Butler's Army and was placed in the Third Brigade, Ames's Division, Tenth Corps, Colonel White being assigned to the command of the brigade. At Drewry's Bluff the division was attacked by Beauregard's forces, which advanced in the morning under the concealment of a thick fog; the regiment, occu pying an exposed position, received the full force of the attack, losing over 300 men killed, wounded, and cap tured; Colonel White and 164 men were taken prisoners. At Cold Harbor the Fifty-fifth fought in Stannard's Brigade, Martindale's Division, Eighteenth Corps, sustaining a loss of 12 killed, no wounded, and 29 missing. In the assault on Petersburg, June 15, 1864, the regiment lost 24 killed, 124 wounded, and 8 missing; total, 156. In December, 1864, the Eighteenth Corps was discontinued, upon which the regiment was assigned to Fairchild's (4th) Brigade, Foster's (ist) Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, in which command it took part in the closing bat tles of the war. The Fifty-fifth lost 750 men, killed or wounded, during the eleven months preceding Lee's surrender. _07830
