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June 12, 1861 |
Organized at Worcester and mustered in under Colonel Charles P. Devens |
August 8-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C.; Attached to Gorman's Brigade, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army of the Potomac |
August 12 - 25 |
At Camp Kalorama |
August 25-27 |
March to Poolesville, Md. |
August 27 - October 20 |
Picket and outpost duty on the Upper Potomac from Conrad's Ferry to Harrison's Island |
October 21-24 |
Operations on the Potomac |
October 21 |
Action at Ball's Bluff
The regiment lost 2 officers and 12 men killed, 4 officers and 57 men wounded, and 8 officers and 219 men missing. Colonel Devens swam the Potomac to escape capture. |
October - March |
At Harper's Ferry and Bolivar Heights |
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March 7 |
At Charlestown |
March 10 |
At Berryville |
March 13-15 |
Movement toward Winchester and return to Bolivar Heights |
March |
Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 22-April 1 |
Moved to Fortress Monroe. Colonel Devens promoted to Brigadier General |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
April 29 |
Major John Kimball promoted to lieutenant colonel |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July 2 - August 15 |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 15-28 |
Movement to Alexandria |
August 29-30 |
To Centreville |
August 31-
September 1 |
Cover Pope's retreat |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John W. Kimball, the regiment brought 606 men to the field. Captains Richard Derby, John Saunders (Sharpshooters) and Clark Simonds, Lieutenants Frank Corbin and William Berry (Sharpshooters) and 70 enisted men were killed, 255 men wounded, 43 mortally, and men 24 missing when Sedgwick's Division was ambushed in the West Woods.
The regiment's monument at Antietam lists each of the killed and mortally wounded for the regiment and the attached company of sharpshooters. |
September 22 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry |
October 30-
November 20 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 10 |
Lieutenant Colonel Kimball transferred to 53rd Massachusetts Infantry as colonel |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 3 |
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks' Ford |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Commanded by Colonel George H. Ward until he was mortally wounded on July 2. Lieutenant Colonel George C. Joslin then took command. The regiment brought 304 men to the field, losing 23 killed, 97 wounded and 28 missing.
From one of a series of iron signs south of the Copse of Trees (below right): "Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers. The position of this regiment in line of batle is marked by its monument 235 yards due south. It charged up to this point and attacked Pickett's Division in flank as his troops were coming over the stonewall." |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Bristoe Station |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
Robertson's Tavern or Locust Grove |
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February 6-7 |
Morton's Ford |
February - May |
Picketing Rapidan |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient at Spottsylvania Court House |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16-July 12 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 12 |
Left the front |
July 28 |
Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 20th Massachusetts. |
