Fifteenth Infantry Look to your arms, boys, Your friends tried and true; How the blood warms, boys, The foe is in view. Monroe was the place of the rendezvous of the 15th Regiment. It was recruited under the direction of Colonel John M. Oliver, of that place. The organization of the regiment being completed, it [...]
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The destination of the regiment being the army then serving with General Grant in Mississippi, it reached Pittsburg Landing on the day before the battle of the 6th and 7th of April, and its participation in that action cost the regiment Captain George A. Strong, Lieutenant Malvin Dresser, and 31 men lulled, and 1 officer [...]
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Report of Lieutenant Colonel McDermott covering the part taken by his regiment at Chewalla and Corinth: “We were stationed at Chewalla, a small post some nine miles from Corinth, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Attached to us was a company of cavalry commanded by Ford (53d Illinois. ), which was kept on duty night [...]
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About 10 P. M. we were ordered to fail back to an elevated spot about one mile from Chewalla, when we formed in line of battle, still keeping our pickets and line of skirmishers there. We rested on our arms all night. About 5 o’clock in the morning of the 3d, our advance pickets and [...]
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We stood there under a hot fire until about 4 P. M., when the gun on our right gave way for want of ammunition, causing the regiment on the right as well as on the left to fall back. After retiring some two hundred paces, we rained, and by the aid of Captain Clark, A. [...]
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but in the glorious victory achieved they lost sight of everything but the Union. We arrived at Corinth in good order. Our loss in this affair was thirteen killed, thirty-two wounded, and five missing. ” November 2d, 1862, the 15th was ordered with its division to move from Corinth, where it had been stationed, to [...]
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Leaving Florenee in command of Lieutenant Colonel Jaquith, November 2d, 1863, the 15th proceeded, via Fayetteville and Winchester, Tenn., to Bridgeport, whence, on the 16th, it marched to Stevenson, and on the 17th to Scottsboro, Ala. During the months of January and February, 1864, the regiment remained quietly in camp at that point. Becoming a [...]
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Marching via Marietta to Rossville, the regiment crossed to the south side of the Chatta-hoochee river on the 14th. On the 17th it moved to Cross Keys, and on the 18th marched towards Decatur, going into line of battle, though not becoming engaged. On the 20th it moved forward, via Decatur, several miles, and on [...]
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The flag of the 5th Confederate Infantry was forwarded to Michigan. That of the 17th and 18th Texas was presented by the regiment to Lieutenant Colonel William T. Clark, Assistant Adjutant General, Department Army of the Tennessee. On the 27th the 15th proceeded to the extreme right of the army. While advancing in line on [...]
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The 15th, serving in 3d brigade, 2d division, 15th corps, on November 1, 1864, left Cave Springs, Ala., and moved, via Marietta and Powder Springs, Ga., to Atlanta, arriving there on the 12th, where it remained until the 14th, when it commenced the march with the army of General Sherman to Savannah, which was continued [...]
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