United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine > 15th Maine Infantry Regiment
The 15th Maine Infantry Regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 340 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| December 6-31 | Organized at Augusta |
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1862
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| January 23 | The 15th Maine Infantry Regiment mustered in under the command of Colonel John McCluskey |
| February 25 | Moved to Portland and attached to Butler’s New Orleans Expeditionary Corps |
| March 6 | Embarked for Ship Island, Mississippi. |
| March | Duty at Ship Island, Mississippi and attached to 3rd Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf |
| May 19 | At Camp Parapet and Carrollton |
| August 15 | Colonel McCluskey resigned. He had been cleared in a court martial of “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, threatening subordinate officers and neglect of duty. General Butler accepted the resignation “with pleasure.” |
| September 8 | Moved to Pensacola, Florida attached to District of West Florida, Department of the Gulf |
| September 13 | Isaac Dyer was promoted to colonel. |
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1863
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| February 25 | Action at Fifteen Mile House, Fla. |
| March 6 | Action at Arcadia |
| June 21 | Ordered to New Orleans, then to La Fourche Landing, and attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Department of the Gulf |
| June 23-25 |
Expedition to Thibodeaux |
| July | At Camp Parapet |
| August | Provost duty in New Orleans |
| October 27- December 2 |
Expedition to the Rio Grande, Texas |
| November 3-6 | Advance on Brownsville |
| November 6 | Occupation of Brownsville |
| November 14-21 | Expedition to Aransas |
| November 17 | Aransas Pass and capture of Mustang Island |
| November 25-27 | Fort Esperanza |
| November 23 | Cedar Bayou (Detachment) |
| December | Duty at Pass Cavallo, Matagorda Island. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 13th Corps, Department of the Gulf |
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1864
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| January | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 13th Corps, Department of the Gulf |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Corps, Department of the Gulf |
| March 1-5 | Moved to Franklin, Louisiana. |
| March 10-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| March 14-26 | Advance from Franklin to Alexandria |
| March 26-April 2 | To Natchitoches |
| April 8 |
Battle of Sabine Cross Roads |
| April 9 | Pleasant Hill |
| April 23 | Cane River Crossing |
| April 26-May 13 | At Alexandria |
| May 13-22 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 | Mansura |
| May-June | Duty at Morganza |
| July 1-17 | Six companies moved to Fort Monroe, then to Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
| July 1-12 | Four Companies under Murray and Drew moved from Morganza to Washington, D.C. |
| July 14-24 | Pursuit of Early (Four Companies under Murray and Drew) |
| July 18 | Duty in trenches at Bermuda Hundred (six companies) |
| July 28-30 | Deep Bottom |
| July | Six companies moved to Washington, D.C., then to Monocacy, Md. |
| August 4 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley CampaignRegiment reunited at Monocacy, Md. and assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| August 5-October 1 | Veterans on furlough to Maine. Non-Veterans temporarily attached to 13th Maine Infantry Regiment and duty at Harper’s Ferry |
| October 5 | The regiment moved to Martinsburg |
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1865
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| January 7 | Moved to Stevenson’s Depot, and operations in the Shenandoah Valley |
| January 15 | Non-Veterans mustered out |
| April 19-23 | Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Department of Washington |
| May 23-24 | On provost duty during Grand Review |
| May 31-June 4 | Moved to Savannah, Ga. and attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, District of South Carolina, Dept. of the South |
| June 13-14 | To Georgetown, S.C. |
| June | Duty at Georgetown, Darlington, Cheraw, Chesterfield C. H., Bennettsville, Columbia and in Districts of Chester, Lancaster, York, Spartanburg and Union |
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1866
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| July 5 | The 15th Maine Infantry Regiment mustered out |