Dedicated: September 17, 1900
Location: East side of State Route 65, North of the Visitor Center
Map Number: 30
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15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument NPS Photo
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
Dedication of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument NPS Photo