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Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry.
Harrow's Brigade —
Griffin's Division--Second Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 3 | | 3 | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | 3 | 10 | 13 | | 9 | 9 | 167 |
| | B | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 9 | 9 | 163 |
| | C | 1 | 31 | 32 | | 9 | 9 | 174 |
| | D | 2 | 20 | 22 | | 16 | 16 | 187 |
| | E | | 18 | 18 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 157 |
| | F | | 23 | 23 | | 6 | 6 | 166 |
| | G | | 26 | 26 | | 19 | 19 | 168 |
| | H | 1 | 23 | 24 | | 20 | 20 | 167 |
| | I | 1 | 33 | 34 | | 15 | 15 | 177 |
| | K | 1 | 27 | 28 | | 9 | 9 | 158 |
| Totals | 14 | 227 | 241 | 1 | 121 | 122 | 1,701 |
241 killed == 14.1 per cent.
Original enrollment, 1011; killed, 171; percentage, 16.9.
Total of killed and wounded, 879.
Died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 32.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Ball's Bluff, Va. | 44 | Mine Run, Va. | 2 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 10 | Wilderness, Va. | 10 |
| Antietam, Md1 | 98 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 14 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 5 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 3 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 38 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 5 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. | 4 | Petersburg, Va. | 8 |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
West Point;
Peach Orchard; Savage Station;
Glendale;
Malvern Hill;
Vienna;
Fredericksburg (1863);
Po River;
North Anna.
notes.--At
Antietam the Fifteenth sustained one of the most remarkable losses of the war. It was then in
Gorman's Brigade,
Sedgwick's Division, and was commanded by
Lieutenant-Colonel Kimball.
It carried into this action 606 officers and men, of whom 3 8 were killed or wounded.
The killed and mortally wounded numbered 108, including a company of the
Andrew Sharpshooters, which had been permanently attached to the Fifteenth while at
Yorktown, making eleven companies.
At
Gettysburg the number engaged was 239, officers and men, of whom 148 were killed or wounded — a loss of over sixty per cent.
Colonel Ward, who had lost a leg at Ball's Bluff, was killed in this action.
The Fifteenth served in the First Brigade, Second Division;
General Harrow commanded the brigade at
Gettysburg and
General Webb at the
Wilderness.
Entering the latter campaign with 275 men, it lost, prior to its muster-out, 14 killed, 58 wounded, and 4 missing; not including 67, who were missing or captured at
Petersburg.
The Fifteenth was raised in
Worcester County.
It left
Worcester August 8, 1861, and returned July 14, 1864, when it was mustered out, its three years term of service having expired.
Its return to
Worcester was marked by a grand and memorable ovation on the part of the citizens and State authorities.
