Federal Regiment

155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Organized: Harrisburg; mustered in 09/05/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Washington, DC 06/02/1865

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. Edward J. Allen

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Fifth Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, 5th Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Corps

Unit history

"At Harrisburg a regimental organization was effected with Edward Jay Allen as colonel, and armed with the Belgian rifle, a species of light artillery, we were at once transported by rail to Washington. Here we were assigned to General Briggs Brigade of General AA Humphreys Division The foe had crossed the Potomac and had invaded loyal soil ..."1

On the Antietam Campaign

"Pausing at Washington long enough to exchange the worthless Austrian rifles with which it had been armed, for the smooth-bore Springfield muskets,the regiment pushed forward through Maryland, over the battle-ground of South Mountain, and was greeted, as it approached Antietam, with the sound of the conflict. The Fifth Corps was held in reserve during the engagement,and hence the regiment was not called into action."2

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #19: Humphreys' Division, Fifth Army Corps - 14 Sep, 6 AM to 18 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #33: Fifth Army Corps - 15 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 12 PM

References & Notes

A history of the unit called Under the Maltese Cross (1910) is also available online.

We have 61 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Campbell, John M.
A	Pvt	Marchand, Nicholas G.	Died (d) 11/19
A	Capt	Pearson, Alfred Lawrence
A	Lt	Stewart, John C.
B	Sgt	Campbell, Henry Reams
B	Sgt	Grubbs, Henry W.
B	Lt	Jennings, Benjamin F.
B	Pvt	McMillin, Archibald	Died (d) 11/07
B	Pvt	Weaver, Henry F.
C	Sgt	Dunn, Thomas B.
C	Corp	Euwer, Archibald Nelson
D	Pvt	Booth, George
D	Pvt	Finnegan, James
D	Lt	Kilgore, Samuel
D	Pvt	Leonard, Hugh
E	Pvt	Alter, John King
E	Pvt	Callen, Theophilus S.
E	Pvt	Crookham, John F.
E	Pvt	Douglass, Robert P.
E	Corp	Lancaster, John Moore
E	Pvt	Latta, Colin
E	Lt	Laughlin, George McCully
E	Corp	Loutsenheiser, Newell D.
E	Pvt	McKenna, Charles Francis
E	Pvt	O'Neil, James P.
E	Pvt	Overholt, Abraham F.	Died (d) 10/10
E	Pvt	Pangburn, Noah H.
E	Sgt	Power, Joseph Torrence
E	Lt	Sackett, Joseph B.
E	Corp	Tomer, Thomas J.
F	Lt	Breed, Henry A.
F	Pvt	Easton, Brice	Died (d) 10/02
F	Pvt	Hill, Robert A.	WIA 09/14
F	Capt	Markle, John L.
F	Corp	McClelland, George Pressly
F	Pvt	Snodgrass, James L.	Died (d) 11/16
G	Pvt	Baker, Marion M.	Died (d) 10/03
G	Pvt	Fowles, Erred	MWIA 09/18
G	Pvt	Fowles, William B.
G	Capt	Klotz, Charles
G	Sgt	Kribbs, John A.
G	Lt	Meeker, Edwin
H	Sgt	Bailey, William Y.
H	Lt	Mooney, John
H	Sgt	Orr, David T.
H	Pvt	Porter, John T.
H	Sgt	Whitmer, William R.	Died (d) 10/12
I	Pvt	Adams, Joseph	Died (d) 10/26
I	Pvt	Bradley, Ralph
I	Sgt	Hunter, James K. P.
I	Sgt	Kerr, John H.
I	Capt	McKee, Samuel A.
I	Corp	Phillips, James J. Sinclair
I	Corp	Walter, Charles A.
K	Pvt	Hayes, William B.	Died (d) 11/19
F&S	Col	Allen, Edward Jay
F&S	Maj	Cain, John Herron
F&S	Lt	Montooth, Edward Alexander
F&S	ASrg	Reed, Joseph Andrew Erastus
F&S	Pvt	Thorn, Ellis C.
F&S	ASrg	Wilson, William Stockton

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Notes

1 Nicholson, John Page, Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, 2 Volumes, Harrisburg: Wm.. Stanley Ray, 1893, Vol. 2, pg. 756 [AotW citation 1057]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 4, pg. 800 [AotW citation 1058]

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