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Fifty-Fifth Ohio Infantry.
Smith's Brigade —
Steinwehr's Division--Eleventh Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | | 2 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | | 11 | 11 | 141 |
| | B | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 13 | 13 | 135 |
| | C | | 16 | 16 | | 14 | 14 | 146 |
| | D | | 14 | 14 | | 9 | 9 | 143 |
| | E | | 7 | 7 | | 17 | 17 | 131 |
| | F | | 13 | 13 | | 12 | 12 | 145 |
| | G | 3 | 15 | 18 | | 11 | 11 | 124 |
| | H | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 11 | 11 | 139 |
| | I | | 14 | 14 | | 14 | 14 | 136 |
| | K | | 12 | 12 | | 7 | 7 | 139 |
| Totals | 7 | 136 | 143 | | 119 | 119 | 1,392 |
143 killed == 10.2 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 547.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Franklin, Va. | 1 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 10 |
| Manassas, Va. | 23 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 3 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 35 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 6 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 11 | Fayetteville, N. C. | 1 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 4 | Averasboro, N. C. | 5 |
| Buzzard's Roost, Ga. | 2 | Bentonville, N. C. | 9 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 31 | Magnolia Station, S. C. | 1 |
| Dallas, Ga. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
McDowell;
Cross Keys;
Cedar Mountain;
Cassville, Ga.; Chattahoochie, Ga.; Siege of
Savannah.
notes.--Organized in the fall of 1861, at
Norwalk, Ohio, leaving the
State January 25, 1862, and proceeding to
Grafton, W. Va., where it remained until April, 1862.
During the spring of 1862 it served in
Schenck's Brigade, and was present with that command at
Manassas,--then
McLean's (2d) Brigade,
Schenck's (1st) Division,
Sigel's Corps; the casualties in the regiment at that battle amounted to 14 killed, 60 wounded, and 21 missing, The Corps remained in
Virginia, encamped near
Centreville, during
McClellan's Antietam campaign, and then went into winter-quarters at Stafford Court House.
On the 27th of April it broke camp for
Chancellorsville, the brigade being then in
Devens's (1st) Division, Eleventh Corps; the loss of the regiment in that battle was 9 killed, 87 wounded, and 57 missing,--out of 491 present.
At
Gettysburg the Fifty-fifth was in
Smith's (2d) Brigade,
Steinwehr's (2d) Division, Eleventh Corps; casualties, 6 killed, 31 wounded, and 12 missing. In September, 1863, the regiment accompanied its Corps to
Tennessee, where it fought at
Missionary Ridge.
In April, 1864, the Eleventh was transferred to
Hooker's newly organized Twentieth Corps, a corps which won honorable distinction in the
Atlanta campaign.
During that campaign the regiment — then in
Butterfield's (3d) Division — participated in some hard fighting at
Resaca, where it lost 18 killed--including
Colonel Gambee and
Major Robbins--72 wounded, and one missing; its casualties on that campaign were over 200, or fifty per cent. of its effective strength.
After marching with
Sherman to the sea, it was hotly engaged in more hard fighting at
Averasboro and
Bentonville, N. C.
