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Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry
Carlin's Brigade —
Johnson's Division--Fourteenth 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 | 4 | | 4 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 8 | 8 | 110 |
| | B | | 10 | 10 | | 17 | 17 | 89 |
| | C | 2 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 98 |
| | D | | 13 | 13 | | 13 | 13 | 91 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 8 | 8 | 95 |
| | F | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 13 | 13 | 91 |
| | G | | 15 | 15 | | 10 | 10 | 95 |
| | H | | 11 | 11 | | 9 | 9 | 85 |
| | I | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 9 | 9 | 91 |
| | K | | 10 | 10 | | 11 | 11 | 94 |
| Totals | 9 | 128 | 137 | 1 | 113 | 114 | 952 |
137 killed==14.3 per cent.
Total killed and wounded.
516; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 10.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Chaplin Hills, Ky. | 82 | Resaca, Ga. | 6 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 14 | New Hope Church, Ga. | 3 |
| In Action, May 16, 1863 | 1 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 5 |
| Tullahoma, Tenn. | 1 | Atlanta, Ga. | 6 |
| Hoover's Gap, Tenn. | 1 | Shepherdsville, Ky. (Guerrillas) | 1 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 14 | Lebanon Junction, Ky. (Guerrillas) | 3 |
Present, also, at
Missionary Ridge;
Buzzard Roost;
Peach Tree Creek;
Jonesboro.
notes.--Mustered — in December 14, 1861, and ordered immediately to the Army of the Cumberland, where it was assigned to
General O. M. Mitchel's Division.
In the summer of 1862,
Mitchel's troops marched through
Kentucky and
Tennessee to
Huntsville, Ala.; thence, with
Buell's Army, on the campaign incidental to the pursuit of
Bragg, marching north, across
Tennessee and
Kentucky, to
Louisville; and thence to
Perryville, Ky., where the battle of Chaplin Hills was fought.
The regiment was then in
Lytle's Brigade,
Rousseau's Division,
McCook's Corps, and sustained a fearful loss in that battle, its casualties amounting to 66 killed, and 130 wounded;
no missing. The three field-officers,
Colonel Pope,
Lieutenant-Colonel George P. Jouett, and
Major William P. Campbell, were killed in this battle; two of the line-officers also lost their lives there.
The Fifteenth carried itself through this bloody action with a cool gallantry and steadiness of movement which elicited strong words of praise in the official reports of that action.
At
Stone's River, the regiment lost 10 killed, 32 wounded, and 18 missing;
Forman, the “Brave Boy
Colonel,” being among the killed.
At
Chickamauga, then in
Beatty's (1st) Brigade,
Negley's (2d) Division, Fourteenth Corps, the regiment lost 5 killed, 42 wounded, and 15 missing. In October, 1863, it was placed in
Carlin's (1st) Brigade,
Palmer's (1st) Division, Fourteenth Corps, in which command it fought at
Missionary Ridge.
During the
Atlanta campaign, this division was known as
Johnson's Division.
After the fall of
Atlanta, the regiment was assigned to garrison duty.
Mustered out January 14, 1865.
