The 15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 232 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 131 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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Organized at Camp Fair Oaks, near Flemmington, N. J. |
August 25 |
Mustered in |
August 27 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. At Tennallytown, D.C. constructing Fort Kearney. |
September 30 |
Moved to Frederick, Md. then to Bakerville, attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
October 29-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
January-April |
Duty near Falmouth, Va. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Franklin's Crossing |
May 3 |
Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks' Ford |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Commanded by Col. William H. Penrose. It brought 441 men to the field and lost three wounded.
The regiment is honored on the New Jersey Brigade Monument at Gettysburg. |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. |
July 5 |
Fairfield, Pa. |
July 10-13 |
At and near Funkstown, Md. |
July-September |
In camp near Warrenton |
September 15 |
At Culpeper |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Rappahannock Station |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
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December-May |
Duty at Brandy Station |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle" |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 17-19 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 9-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 11-12 |
Repulse of Early's attack on Fort Stevens and the northern defenses of Washington, D.C. |
July 14-23 |
Pursuit of Early to Snicker's Gap |
July 17-18 |
Snicker's Ferry |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 14-15 |
Strasburg |
August 15 |
Cedar Creek |
August 17 |
Winchester |
August 21-22 |
Charlestown |
September 19 |
Battle of Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-December |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Moved to Washington, D.C. then to Petersburg, Va. and Siege of Petersburg |
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February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Assault and capture of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-27 |
March to Danville |
May 18-June 3 |
March to Richmond, Va. then to Washington, D.C. |
June 8 |
Corps Review |
June 22 |
Mustered out at Hall's Hill, Va. |