15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

On September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, with the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters attached, numbered 606 men of all ranks under Lieutenant Colonel John W. Kimball in Gorman's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps, and here met and engaged troops from the brigades of Semmes, Early, and Barksdale. Within twenty minutes, 330 had fallen, with 75 killed and 255 wounded, and 43 later died of wounds. The dead included officers and enlisted men from Companies B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and K, as well as men from the Andrew Sharpshooters, and those who died of wounds in the days and months afterward came from Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and K and the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters.

Keedysville, Maryland · United States