Virginia 55th Infantry, Company F (Confederate)

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Company mustered in on September 1st, 1861 at Tidewater, Richmond County, Virginia. Company mustered out of service on April 9th, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

Notable Battles:

• Skirmish at Mechanicsville, Virginia fought on June 26th, 1862
• Mechanicsville fought on June 26th, 1862 near Mechanicsville, Virginia (6 wounded, 2 died, 0 imprisoned)
• Gaines' Mill fought on June 27th, 1862 near Gaines' Mill, Virginia (3 wounded, 1 died, 0 imprisoned)
• Chancellorsville fought on May 2nd, 1863 near Chancellorsville, Virginia (14 wounded, 3 died, 1 imprisoned)
• Gettysburg fought on July 1st, 1863 near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (5 wounded, 2 died, 2 imprisoned)
• Williamsport fought on July 14th, 1863 near Falling Waters, Maryland;Falling Waters (1 wounded, 0 died, 10 imprisoned)
• Wilderness fought on May 5th, 1864 near Wilderness, Virginia (2 wounded, 1 died, 8 imprisoned)
• Sailor's Creek fought on April 6th, 1865 near Sailor's Creek, Virginia (0 wounded, 0 died, 4 imprisoned)
• High Bridge fought on April 6th, 1865 near High Bridge;High Bridge, Virginia (0 wounded, 0 died, 4 imprisoned)

Facts about this Company:

• Number of Soldiers: 158
• First Enlistment Date: 1861-05-21 (61 soldiers)
• Most Common Residence for 1861: Essex County, Virginia (23 soldiers)
• Youngest Soldier at Enlistment: 15 -- Clarkson, John Andrew
• Oldest Soldier at Enlistment: 40 -- Fogg, James E.
• Average Age at Enlistment: 25.7 years old
• Median Age at Enlistment: 23.5 years old
• Wounded In Regiment: 35 (20%)
• Prisoner Of War While In Regiment: 32 (19%)
• Soldiers That Died While In Regiment: 34 (20%)
• Soldiers That Died While In War: 29 (17%)

Commander List: (#Prisoner Of War, ^Wounded, %=Died during war)

• (Sergeant, July 1861 - March 1862; Sergeant, March 1862 - April 1862)
• Atkins, Ezra C. (Corporal, May 1862 - October 1862)
• Billups, Hugh G. (First Sergeant, May 1861 - December 1861)
• Bray, James (Corporal, May 1861 - April 1862)
• Broaddus, A W (Quatermaster Sergeant, September 1861 - 1862; Captain/Acting Quartermaster, April 1862 - December 1862)
• Brockenbrough, Austin (#^%First Lieutenant, July 1861 - July 1862; Captain, July 1862 - July 1863)
• Brooks, John R (#Sergeant, March 1862 - October 1864)
• Burke, Thomas Mundie (^%Captain, May 1861 - June 1862; Major, June 1862 - June 1862)
• Campbell, Peter T. (Corporal, July 1861 - May 1862)
• Clarke, Washington L (Sergeant, May 1861 - October 1862; Sergeant, January 1864 - ?)
• Collins, John H. (Fifer/Musician, May 1861 - July 1862)
• Cooke, James B (^Sergeant, March 1862 - May 1862; First Sergeant, May 1862 - July 1863)
• Creighton, John T. (#^First Sergeant, March 1862 - June 1862; Seaman Carpenter/First Sergeant, June 1862 - April 1866)
• Croxton, James A. (Second Lieutenant, April 1862 - May 1862; Corporal, May 1862 - June 1862)
• Dangerfield, Henry W (Second Lieutenant, May 1861 - July 1861)
• Derieux, Alfred (#Sergeant, May 1861 - ?)
• Derieux, Arthur J. (^Sergeant, December 1861 - May 1862)
• Faulconer, William Henry Harrison (#Corporal, May 1862 - October 1862; Sergeant, October 1862 - October 1864; First Sergeant/Sergeant, October 1864 - ?)
• Ferguson, Andrew J (Corporal, May 1862 - April 1864)
• Fleet, John A (Captain/First Lieutenant, June 1861 - June 1861; First Lieutenant/Captain, June 1861 - May 1862)
• Fogg, Thomas B. (%First Sergeant, October 1862 - May 1863)
• French, William Thomas (#Sergeant, March 1862 - July 1862)
• Gordon, John G. (#%Sergeant, April 1863 - May 1863; Sergeant Major, May 1863 - September 1864)
• Graves, Henry (Sergeant, November 1861 - July 1862)
• Haile, Robert Gaines (^%Second Lieutenant/Sergeant, May 1861 - July 1861; Second Lieutenant, July 1861 - June 1862; First Lieutenant/Captain, June 1862 - July 1862)
• Hall, John Richard (Drummer/Musician, July 1861 - August 1863)
• Henley, Leonard (%Sergeant, May 1862 - May 1863; Second Lieutenant, May 1863 - November 1863)
• Kidd, John W. (Corporal, March 1864 - ?)
• Kidd, Joseph T. (%Corporal, May 1861 - October 1861)
• Lumpkin, Benjamin (Sergeant, January 1864 - ?)
• Mann, John R. (%Second Lieutenant, June 1862 - June 1862)
• Marshall, Richard L. (Corporal, October 1862 - ?)
• McDonald, Richard C. (^Corporal, October 1862 - January 1865; Sergeant Major, January 1865 - April 1865)
• McGeorge, Thomas J. (^Corporal, October 1862 - February 1864)
• Micon, A R (#^Lieutenant/Second Lieutenant/Sergeant/private, May 1861 - July 1861; Sergeant, July 1861 - May 1862; Second Lieutenant, August 1862 - ?)
• Micou, Edgar R. (^Sergeant, August 1861 - May 1862; Corporal, July 1862 - ?)
• Micou, William Baynham (Paymaster, May 1861 - October 1862)
• Montgomery, Thomas H. (First Sergeant/Sergeant, May 1861 - May 1862)
• Mundie, Leonard (^Corporal, October 1862 - April 1865)
• Muse, James H. (^Captain/Captain/acting Commissary Of Subsistence, September 1861 - ?)
• Muse, Samuel William (Corporal/Sergeant, November 1861 - April 1862)
• Newbill, Christopher C (Sergeant, October 1862 - ?)
• Nicholson, George D (#^Corporal, December 1862 - March 1865; Second Lieutenant, March 1865 - ?)
• Powers, Edward L. (Corporal, May 1861 - July 1861)
• Powers, Thomas A. (#Corporal, May 1862 - September 1862)
• Reynolds, Albert (#^Captain, October 1861 - April 1862; Second Lieutenant, April 1862 - October 1862; Captain, October 1862 - ?)
• Roane, Lawrence D (^Second Lieutenant, July 1861 - August 1862; First Lieutenant, August 1862 - September 1863; Captain, September 1863 - November 1864)
• Rouzie, Richard R (Ordnance Sergeant, May 1862 - ?)
• Rouzie, Robert R (^First Lieutenant/Second Lieutenant, September 1862 - January 1863)
• Rouzie, William W (%Sergeant, October 1862 - April 1863; Sergeant Major, April 1863 - May 1863)
• Sandy, Philip A (Captain, September 1861 - ?)
• Saunders, Edgar J. (Second Lieutenant, May 1861 - April 1862)
• Saunders, Walton (Assistant Surgeon, September 1861 - October 1861)
• Stone, W W (Corporal, May 1861 - May 1862; Corporal, May 1862 - June 1862)
• Tupman, John H. (^%Corporal, September 1861 - May 1862; Sergeant, May 1862 - August 1862; Second Lieutenant, August 1862 - June 1864)
• Waring, P C (^Second Lieutenant, August 1862 - September 1862; First Lieutenant, September 1862 - January 1865; Captain, January 1865 - April 1865)
• Whitlocke, Robert B (#Second Lieutenant, October 1862 - ?)
• Wright, Richard Edward (^%Sergeant, October 1862 - May 1863; First Sergeant, May 1863 - September 1864; Acting Ensign/First Sergeant, September 1864 - September 1864)
• Wright, Thomas R.B. (^First Lieutenant, July 1861 - August 1862; Second Lieutenant, April 1864 - July 1864; First Lieutenant, July 1864 - ?)
• Wright, William Alfred (%Captain, June 1862 - June 1862)
• Wright, William W. (First Lieutenant/Captain, March 1862 - October 1862)

Soldier List: (#Prisoner Of War, ^Wounded, %=Died during war)

• (%)
• Allen, James H.
• Allen, Robert
• Armstrong, Joseph Ellis
• Ashburn, Griffin (#)
• Baylis, C.F.
• Beasley, Richard E
• Berkley, Bedell (#^)
• Bowler, Jesse R (#)
• Bradley, John F. (%)
• Brooks, Richard (#^)
• Brown, James L. (#)
• Buckner, B F
• Burch, Robert C. (#)
• Cammack, Joseph J.
• Carneale, Robert Leland (^)
• Catlin, Alfred S. (%)
• Clarkson, John Andrew (%)
• Coghill, Alexander (%)
• Coghill, Thomas A. (^)
• Collier, James H.
• Conoly, John L
• Cook, William T. (#)
• Cooke, Robert H (#)
• Cornelius, William P. (#)
• Crow, John N
• Crow, Nathaniel (#)
• Crow, Thornton N (%)
• Croxton, Richard
• Davis, Samuel T.
• Duling, James M.
• Duling, William A. (^)
• Dunn, Iverson L. (#)
• Dunn, Richard H. (%)
• Dunston, Thomas W.
• Durham, George T (%)
• Dyke, Erasmus R (^)
• Fogg, James E. (#)
• Franklin, Richard W.
• Garnett, Muscoe
• Gordon, Thomas C.
• Gouldman, Dallas G. (^%)
• Gouldman, J M
• Gouldman, Thomas L.
• Greenstreet, John A.
• Greenstreet, William F.
• Griggs, John A.
• Hilliard, Quintus C (#)
• Huckstep, John H. (%)
• James, William W. (#^)
• Key, Richard (%)
• Latane, Henry W.
• Latham, John R. (%)
• Latham, William T
• Latham, William T.
• Longest, Thomas (%)
• Lumpkin, Christopher
• Lumpkin, Walter (%)
• McFarland, James R (#)
• McFarland, Joseph W. (#)
• McKenney, James B.
• Mickelboro, Algernon B
• Milby, G W
• Minor, Ephraim R (#)
• Montgomery, Albert Jeter
• Motley, T W (#^)
• Mundie, James H. (^)
• Mundie, Richard A
• Muse, Richard James (^)
• Northern, J B (#)
• Pitts, Benj F
• Rehm, Frederick
• Reynolds, Thomas (^)
• Reynolds, William Rufus (#)
• Richardson, Joseph
• Rouzie, Henry S
• Saunders, Eugene L. (%)
• Scott, Joseph
• Seward, Louis A. (%)
• Smith, Lewis O.
• Smith, William B (^)
• Smither, John L.
• Stephens, William L. (%)
• Stevens, William
• Stokes, Richard S.
• Tapscott, Charles F
• Taylor, Henry
• Taylor, Henry P
• Tinsbloom, John L.
• Tinsbloom, John S
• Trice, Joseph (^)
• Trice, Winter (^)
• Tupman, Paul Micou
• Walker, John M.
• Walker, Thomas G
• Webb, R S
• Willard, James M.