15th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Army of Northern Virginia
C. S. A.
Field & Staff
15th Infantry Regiment, organized in the spring
of 1861 at Athens, Georgia, contained men from Hancock, Stephens,
Elbert, Lamar, Warren, Wilkes, Taliaferro, and Oglethorpe counties.
On July 22, 1861, the unit was reported to be en route to Virginia
and upon its arrival was assigned to the Potomac District. Later
it was placed in General Toombs' and Benning's Brigade, Army of
Northern Virginia. The 15th was involved in the campaigns of the
army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, except when
it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville.
It continued the fight in the Petersburg siege north of the James
River and later around Appomattox. The regiment totalled 441 men
in April, 1862, and lost 108 during Seven Days' Battles. It sustained
54 casualties at Second Manassas, 36 during the Maryland Campaign,
and forty percent of the 368 engaged at Gettysburg. From April
14, to May 6, there were 73 disabled, and from August 1 to December
31, 1864, it lost 50 killed and wounded. At the surrender, 20
officers and 226 men were present. The field officers were Colonels
Dudley M. DuBose, William M. McIntosh, William T. Millican, and
Thomas W. Thomas; Lieutenant Colonels Stephen Z. Hearnsberger,
Peter J. Shannon, T.J. Smith, and Linton Stephens; and Major Joseph
T. Smith.
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