15th Alabama Infantry
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- July 3, 1861 - Organized at Fort Mitchell for state service
- July 27, 1861 - Organized for Confederate service
- August 1, 1861 - Mustered into Confederate service for the war
- May-June 1862 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
- May 23, 1862 - Front Royal
The Peninsula Campaign
- May 25, 1862 - 1st Winchester
- June 8, 1862 - Cross Keys
- June 25-July 1, 1862 - Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
- June 27, 1862 - Gaines' Mill
- July 1, 1862 - Malvern Hill
- August 9, 1862 - Cedar Mountain
- August 22, 1862 - Hazel River
- August 23, 1862 - Rappahannock Station
- August 28-30, 1862 - 2nd Bull Run
- September 1, 1862 - Chantilly
- September 17, 1862 - Antietam
- September 19, 1862 - Boteler's Ford
- September 20, 1862 - Shephaerdstown Ford
- December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
- April-May 1863 - Suffolk Campaign
- July 1-3, 1863 - Gettysburg
- September 19-20, 1863 -
Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
- September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
- October 28-29, 1863 - Wauhatchie
- November 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
- December 15, 1863 - Bean's Station
The Overland Campaign
- May 5-6, 1864 - The Wilderness
- May 8-21, 1864 - Spotsylvania Courthouse
- May 23-26, 1864 - North Anna
- June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
- June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
- September 29-30, 1864 - Fort Harrison
- September 29-30, 1864 - Fort Gilmer
- October 7, 1864 - Darbytown Road
- October 13, 1864 - Darbytown Road
- April 9, 1865 - Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
DESIGNATIONS
- Army of the Potomac / ? Corps / ? Brigade (August-October 1861)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / E.K. Smith's/Ewell's Division / Trimble's Brigade (October 1861-April 1862)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Ewell's Division / Trimble's Brigade (April-May 1862)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Ewell's Division / Trimble's Brigade (May-June 1862)
- Department of Northern Virginia / 2nd Corps / Ewell's Division / Trimble's Brigade (June 1862-January 1863)
- Department of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Hood's Division / Law's Brigade (January-February 1863)
- Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Hood's Division / Law's Brigade (February-April 1863)
- Department of Southern Virginia / Hood's Division / Law's Brigade (April-May 1863)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Hood's Division / Law's Brigade (May-September 1863)
- Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / Hood's Division / Law's Brigade (September-November 1863)
- Department of East Tennessee / Hood's/Field's Division / Law's Brigade (November 1863-April 1864)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Field's Division / Law's/Perry's Brigade (April 1864-April 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: James Cantey (Colonel)
- John W.L. Daniel (Major)
- Isaac B. Feagin (Lieutenant Colonel)
- Alexander A. Lowther (Major, Colonel)
- William C. Oates (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
- John F. Treutlen (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
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Legacy
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Notes
Sources
- Oates, William C. The War Between the Union and the Confederacy and Its Lost Opportunities with a History of the Fifteenth Alabama Regiment and the Forty-Eight Battles in Which It Fought.
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 75-77)