55th Ohio Infantry

The 55th Ohio Infantry, organized for three years at Norwalk, Ohio, in the autumn of 1861, served in the Mountain Department, the 1st Corps of the Army of Virginia, and the 11th Corps of the Army of the Potomac before being transferred in September 1863 to the Army of the Cumberland; it also served in Grant's Chattanooga Campaign and with the 20th Corps in Sherman's Georgia and Carolina Campaigns, and was mustered out on July 11, 1865. At Gettysburg, it arrived at 2:20 p.m. on July 1 and held this position throughout the battle; with severe loss, its skirmishers drove back those of the enemy and seized a barn between the lines, where 12 of its men were surrounded and captured by the enemy's main line. Its casualties there were 6 killed, 31 wounded, and 12 missing.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States