15th Massachusetts Infantry Monument at Antietam National Battlefield

15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Dedicated:	September 17, 1900
Location:	East side of State Route 65, North of the Visitor Center
Map Number:	Map 1, Position 29
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Killed

Co. F

Sergt. Elisha F. Johnson
Corp'l William L. Blood
" " Joseph G. Fretts
" " John W. Heath
Private Henry R. Bliss
" " Shepard Brown
" " Benjamin Davis
" " John H. Hillman
" " Alfred L. Russell
" " James E. Sargent
" " Justus G. Wellington

Co. G

Private Arthur J. Andrews
" " Asa T. Bryant
" " Harrison J. Clisbee
" " Edward S. Johnson
" " Michael Dugan
" " Orin L. Davis
" " Benjamin R. Elliott
" " Charles J. Merriam
" " Charles J. Merriam

Co. H

Sergt. James B. Fletcher
Corpl. Henry A. Collar
Private Andrew Addision
" " Henry W. Ainsworth
" " O. W. Batchelder
" " Patrick Finnegan
" " Isaac E. Marshall
" " George N. Smith
" " Christopher Young

Co. I

1st Lieut. Frank S. Corbin
Private Henry L. Amidon
" " Lucis H. Briggs
" " George Butler
" " William S. Chapman
" " Charles G. Foster
" " Abram Sargent
" " George R. Stone
" " Mose Wood

Co. K

1st Sergt. Thomas Fernald
Private Adam N. Baker
" " E.R. Buffum
" " Thomas Kelley
" " James Shay
" " Joseph T. Smith
" " John L. Starrett

Andrew Sharpshooters, 1st Co.

Captain John Saunders
Lieut. William Berry
Sergt. John Q. Adams
" " George Whittemore
Corpl Richard A. Van Mall
Private Edwin T. Hills
" " Joseph S. Ingalls
" " Marcus M. Parmenter
" " Warren Snow
" " Martin V. Strong

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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.

Killed

Co. B

Capt. Clark S. Simonds
Private John Campbell
" " Daniel Carpenter

Co. C

Capt. Richard Derby
Private Zadoc Batterson
" " Hiram A. Chambers
" " John Frazer
" " Charles E. Holbrook
" " John P. Larkin
" " George W.B. Sawyer

Co. D

Private Leander J. Owens
" " William S. Sholes
" " Charles H. Styles
" " George H. Thompson

Co. E

Sergt. Amos H. Shumway
Private John H. Curran
" " James H. Davis
" " Alexander Thompson
" " Conrad M. Tower
" " Charles H. Wheelock