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Antietam National Battlefield
15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument
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Dedicated: September 17, 1900
Location: East side of State Route 65, North of the Visitor Center
Map Number: 30
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Monument Text:
15th REG. MASS. VOLS.
Here, September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, with the first company Andrew Sharpshooters attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade. Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps, met and engaged troops of the Brigades of Semmes, Early and Barksdale. Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds.
| Monument Text Continued: | | Killed | | | Co. B | Co. H | | Capt. Clark S. Simonds | Sergt. James B. Fletcher | | Private John Campbell | Corpl. Henry A. Collar | | " " Daniel Carpenter | Private Andrew Addision | | Co. C | " " Henry W. Ainsworth | | Capt. Richard Derby | " " O. W. Batchelder | | Private Zadoc Batterson | " " Patrick Finnegan | | " " Hiram A. Chambers | " " Isaac E. Marshall | | " " John Frazer | " " George N. Smith | | " " Charles E. Holbrook | " " Christopher Young | | " " John P. Larkin | Co. I | | " " George W.B. Sawyer | 1st Lieut. Frank S. Corbin | | Co. D | Private Henry L. Amidon | | Private Leander J. Owens | " " Lucis H. Briggs | | " " William S. Sholes | " " George Butler | | " " Charles H. Styles | " " William S. Chapman | | " " George H. Thompson | " " Charles G. Foster | | Co. E | " " Abram Sargent | | Sergt. Amos H. Shumway | " " George R. Stone | | Private John H. Curran | " " Mose Wood | | " " James H. Davis | Co. K | | " " Alexander Thompson | 1st Sergt. Thomas Fernald | | " " Conrad M. Tower | Private Adam N. Baker | | " " Charles H. Wheelock | " " E.R. Buffum | | Co. F | " " Thomas Kelley | | Sergt. Elisha F. Johnson | " " James Shay | | Corp'l William L. Blood | " " Joseph T. Smith | | " " Joseph G. Fretts | " " John L. Starrett | | " " John W. Heath | Andrew Sharpshooters, 1st Co. | | Private Henry R. Bliss | Captain John Saunders | | " " Shepard Brown | Lieut. William Berry | | " " Benjamin Davis | Sergt. John Q. Adams | | " " John H. Hillman | " " George Whittemore | | " " Alfred L. Russell | Corpl Richard A. Van Mall | | " " James E. Sargent | Private Edwin T. Hills | | " " Justus G. Wellington | " " Joseph S. Ingalls | | Co. G | " " Marcus M. Parmenter | | Private Arthur J. Andrews | " " Warren Snow | | " " Asa T. Bryant | " " Martin V. Strong | | " " Harrison J. Clisbee | | | " " Edward S. Johnson | | | " " Michael Dugan | | | " " Orin L. Davis | | | " " Benjamin R. Elliott | | | " " Charles J. Merriam | |
| Died of Wounds | | Co. A | Corpl | Franklin Garner | Oct. 6, 1862 | | Co. B | Private | George Adams | Oct. 7, 1862 | | Co. C | Sergt. | Joseph P. Johnson | Oct. 14, 1862 | | " " | Private | Harlow D. Getchell | Oct. 14, 1862 | | " " | " | Thomas Hastings | Sept. 20, 1862 | | " " | " | Waldo B. Maynard | Sept. 24, 1862 | | " " | " | Robert R. Moses | Oct. 5, 1862 | | " " | " | Charles E. Warren | Oct. 2, 1862 | | " " | " | Leonard M. Towsley | Sept. 27, 1862 | | Co. D | Corpl. | E.D. Jordan | Sept. 26, 1862 | | " " | Private | Darney Cooney | Sept. 25, 1862 | | " " | " | Silas D. Marsh | Sept. 22, 1862 | | " " | " | Francis H. Noye's | Sept. 20, 1862 | | " " | " | Melville Walker | Sept. 29, 1862 | | Co. E | Private | Alfred W. Davis | Sept. 22, 1862 | | " " | " | Edwin E. Rindge | Oct. 21, 1862 | | Co. F | Corpl | William L. Adams | Oct. 10, 1862 | | " " | Private | William H. Clark | Oct. 1, 1862 | | " " | " | Albert W. Livermore | Jan. 18, 1863 | | " " | " | Charles Perry | Sept. 27, 1862 | | " " | " | William E. Vaneaver | Nov. 1, 1862 | | Co. G | 1st Lieut. | Thomas J. Spurr | Sept. 27, 1862 | | " " | Sergt. | Jonathan P. Stow | Oct. 1, 1862 | | " " | Private | George Burns | Nov. 15, 1862 | | " " | " | Francis H. Marble | Nov. 26, 1862 | | " " | " | James Hughes | Sept. 28, 1862 | | " " | " | Willie E. Morse | Dec. 20, 1862 | | " " | " | Alfred Snow | Oct. 18, 1862 | | " " | " | Charles L. Mitchell | Oct. 24, 1862 | | Co. H | Private | Samuel Emerson | Sept. 26, 1862 | | " " | " | Franklin L. Hayden | Sept. 27, 1862 | | " " | " | Charles D. Smith | Sept. 27, 1862 | | " " | " | Simon Sullivan | Oct. 21, 1862 | | Co. I | Sergt. | Edwin L. Parmenter | Oct. 15, 1862 | | " " | Private | Henry Butler | Nov. 14, 1862 | | " " | " | Edward L. Day | Sept. 20, 1862 | | " " | " | Henry Hathaway | Sept. 20, 1862 | | " " | " | Thomas P. Munyan | Oct. 17, 1862 | | " " | " | Godfried Reideman | Sept. 30, 1862 | | " " | " | Alfred Tourtellotte | Oct. 19, 1862 | | Co. K | Private | David Rodgers | Dec. 27, 1862 | | " " | " | Francis F. Young | Nov. 7, 1862 | | Andrews Sharpshooters | | 1st Co. | Private | Samuel D. Abbott | Sept. 20, 1862 |
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| Dedication of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument |
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