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THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS.

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY.

AYKES'S BRIGADE --GRIFFIN'S DIVISION- 1 n in ('OKI'S.

(l)CoL. EDWAKU J. ALLEN.

(8) COL. JOHN II. CAIN.

(8) COL. ALFKEU L. PEAKSON; BVT. MAJOK-OEN.

Total of killed and wounded, 519 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), lo.

BATTLES. K. & M.W

Fredericksburg, Va 21

Chancellorsville, Va 3

Gettysburg, Pa 7

Wilderness, Va 14

Spotsylvania, Va 18

North Anna, Va 3

Totopotomoy, Va i

Cold Harbor, Va 2

Petersburg, Va. (assault) 26

BATTLES. K.&M.W.

Siege of Petersburg, Va 6

Peeble's Farm, Va 8

Boydton Road, Va 4

Dabney's Mills, Va 9

Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 3

Quaker Road, Va 3

White Oak Road, Va 4

Five Forks, Va 9

Appomattox, Va i

Present, also, at Antietam ; Shepherdstown ; Rappahannock Station : Mine Run ; Bethesda Church ; Weldon Railroad.

NOTES. — Recruited at Pittsburg and vicinity in August, 1862, in response to the President's second call for troops. It arrived at Washington in September, and was assigned to Allabach's (2(1) Brigade, Humphreys's (3d) Division, Fifth Corps. It was engaged in Humphreys's bloody assault on Marye's Heights, where it lost 6 killed, 58 wounded, and 4 missing; the other regiments of the brigade suffered an unusually severe loss. Upon the muster-out of the other regiments in the brigade (nine months men), which occurred soon after Chancellorsville, the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth was placed in Weed's (3d) Brigade, Ayres's (2d) Division. General Weed was killed at Gettysburg, on Little Round Top, while seizing that position with his brigade. In 1864, the regiment was in Ayres's (ist) Brigade, Griffin's (ist) Division. It was known as the Regular Brigade, as the Regulars were at that time massed in this one brigade. The regiment took a prominent part in all the battles of the Fifth Corps in 1864-5, and distinguished itself particularly at the assault on Petersburg, at Peeble's Farm, and at the Quaker Road. Colonel Pearson, who was in command of the brigade part of the time, was twice brevetted for gallantry, while the regiment received complimentary notice from headquarters. In the final campaign the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth was in Bartlett's (3(1) Brigade of the same division. It was in line at Appomattox, and was pressing the enemy when the token of surrender was displayed. 20

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