55th Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers

Casualties incurred on Edisto Island, South Carolina

Source:  The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1862 

^{Transcribed by Shirley Pierce}

From the Harrisburg Telegraph:

Skirmish on Edisto Island, South Carolina in which the gallant 55^th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Richard White.  Composed almost entirely of Indiana, Cambria and Bedford county men, were engaged.  

The following is the list of casualities to wit:  

Killed:  Wm. Cunningham,  Company F  

Wounded:  John Steffe, Company F, and prisoner  

Prisoners:   

Company F:  Lieut M’Illheny, Corporal Samuel Moorehead, Privates:  Abram Coy, Robert H. Kritzer,  Samuel Campbell, Nicholas Cameron, John L. Taylor, Andrew Faren, Noah Fisher, & L. L. Thompson.

Company K:  John Saupp and Jonas Ritchey

Company H:  Sergeant Silas Gollipher,  Walter E. Garlinger, Isaac Ream, Whitaker, John Mars, Thomas Lockard, and John Warning.  

Twenty one prisoners and one killed.  

We are well acquainted with Messrs. Saupp (who has since been found dead), Gollipher, Garlinger, Richey and Ream, all Bedford County men.  They were noble young men, and we are sorry to hear of their sad fate.