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Fifty-Fifth Illinois Infantry.
Thos. K. Smith's Brigade —
Blair's Division--Fifteenth 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 | | | | | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Company | A | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 11 | 11 | 106 |
| | B | 1 | 24 | 25 | | 15 | 15 | 103 |
| | C | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 14 | 14 | 114 |
| | D | | 8 | 8 | | 16 | 16 | 104 |
| | E | 2 | 10 | 12 | | 10 | 10 | 95 |
| | F | 2 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 107 |
| | G | | 10 | 10 | | 15 | 15 | 92 |
| | H | 1 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 90 |
| | I | | 20 | 20 | | 5 | 5 | 119 |
| | K | | 13 | 13 | | 12 | 12 | 113 |
| Totals | 9 | 148 | 157 | 2 | 127 | 129 | 1,056 |
157 killed == 14.8 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 448.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 86 | Kenesaw, Ga., June 19, 1864 | 1 |
| Russell's House, Tenn. | 2 | Kenesaw, Ga., June 27, 1864 | 16 |
| Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. | 3 | Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 | 6 |
| Arkansas Post, Ark. | 1 | Ezra Chapel, Ga. | 6 |
| Vicksburg, Miss., May 19, 1863 | 7 | Atlanta, Ga., August 3, 1864 | 4 |
| Vicksburg, Miss., May 22, 1863 | 7 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 8 |
| Vicksburg Trenches, Miss. | 2 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Jackson, Miss. (On Picket, July 14, 1863） | 1 | Bentonville, N. C. | 1 |
| Black River, Miss.
(On Picket, August 14, 1863） | 1 | Forage Train, N. C., March 27, 1865 | 1 |
Present, also, at Siege of
Corinth; Shelby Depot, Tenn.; Champion's Hill;
Missionary Ridge; Lovejoy's Station; March to the
Sea;
Fort McAllister;
Savannah;
Columbia; The Carolinas.
notes.--Mustered in October 31, 1861, at
Chicago, proceeding, December 9th, to
St. Louis, where it remained a month, and then moved to
Paducah, Ky. On March 8, 1862, the regiment embarked for
Pittsburg Landing, where it was encamped when the
Confederates made their attack at
Shiloh, April 6th; it was then in
Sherman's (5th) Division, Army of the Tennessee.
Its casualties in that battle amounted to 51 killed, 197 wounded, and 27 missing; total, 275--out of 512 men in line.
Lt.-Col. Malmborg commanded the regiment at
Shiloh,
Colonel Stuart being in command of the brigade.
During the
Vicksburg campaign, 1863, it was in
Lightburn's (2d) Brigade,
Blair's (2d) Division, Fifteenth Corps; in the
Atlanta campaign, 1864, this division was commanded by
General Morgan L. Smith; and, in the March to the
Sea, by
General Hazen.
The regiment lost at
Chickasaw Bayou, 2 killed and 4 wounded; at
Vicksburg, First Assault, 4 killed and 22 wounded; at the Second Assault, 5 killed and 13 wounded; and, at the assault on
Kenesaw Mountain, Ga, 14 killed and 33 wounded,
Captain Augustine, who was in command, being among the killed.
The total loss of the regiment on the
Atlanta campaign was 36 killed, and 86 wounded; about half its number.
There were 91 pairs of brothers in tie regiment; of these men, 43 were killed in battle, and 15 died of disease.
The Fifty-fifth followed closely the fortunes of
General Sherman,--from Benton Barracks,
St. Louis, where he was in charge, to the
Grand Review at the close of the war. Its dead lie buried in nine different States; and it traveled, on foot and by transports, 11,965 miles, of which 3,240 were done on foot.
