15th Maine Infantry Regiment

15th Maine Infantry Regiment
15th Maine Infantry Regiment
Active	December 6, 1861 - July 5, 1866
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Brownsville; Red River Campaign; Battle of Mansfield; Battle of Fort Stevens;

The 15th Maine Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 15th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta, Maine December 6–31, 1861 and mustered in January 23, 1862, for a three-year enlistment.

The regiment was attached to Butler's New Orleans Expeditionary Corps January to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, Department of the Gulf, to September 1862, District of West Florida, Department of the Gulf, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to December 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf, to February 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to July 1864, and Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to April 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Department of Washington, to June 1865. 2nd Separate Brigade, District of South Carolina, Department of the South, to July 1866.

The 15th Maine Infantry mustered out of service July 5, 1866.

Detailed service

1862

Moved to Portland. February 25

Embarked for Ship Island, Miss., March 6.
Duty at Ship Island, Miss., until May
Camp Parapet and Carrollton May 19-September 8.
Moved to Pensacola, Fla., September 8 - June 1863.

1863

Action at Fifteen Mile House, Fla., February 25, 1863
Arcadia, March 6
Ordered to New Orleans, June 21
La Fourche Landing
Expedition to Thibodeaux, June 23–25
At Camp Parapet until August
Provost duty in New Orleans until October.
Expedition to the Rio Grande, Texas, October 27-December 2.
- Advance on Brownsville, November 3–6.
- Occupation of Brownsville, November 6.
- Expedition to Aransas, November 14–21.
- Aransas Pass and capture of Mustang Island, November 17.
- Fort Esperanza, November 25–27.
- Cedar Bayou (detachment), November 23

1864

Duty at Pass Cavallo Matagorda Island, until February 28, 1864
Moved to Franklin, La., March 1–5
Red River Campaign, March 10-May 22
Advance from Franklin to Alexandria, March 14–26
Natchitoches, March 26-April 2
Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, April 8
Pleasant Hill, April 9
Cane River Crossing, April 23
At Alexandria, April 26-May 13
Retreat to Morganza, May 13–22
Mansura, May 16
- Duty at Morganza until July.
Moved to Fort Monroe (6 companies)., then to Bermuda Hundred, Va., July 1–17
Duty in trenches at Bermuda Hundred until July 28.
Deep Bottom July 28–30.
Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Monocacy, Md., July 1 - Aug 4
- 4 companies, under Murray and Drew, moved from Morganza to Washington, D.C., July 1–12.
- Pursuit of Early July 14–24.
- Rejoin regiment at Monocacy, Md., August 4.
Veterans on furlough August 5-October l.
Non-veterans temporarily attached to 13th Maine Infantry, and duty at Harpers Ferry until October 5.
Regiment moved to Martinsburg October 5 - January 7, 1865.

1865

Moved to Stevenson's Depot, and operations in the Shenandoah Valley until April.
Moved to Washington, D.C., April 19–23, and duty there until May 31.
On provost duty during the Grand Review of the Armies May 23–24.
Moved to Savannah, Ga., May 31-June 4
Georgetown, S.C., June 13–14.
Duty at Georgetown, Darlington, Cheraw, Chesterfield C. H., Bennettsville, Columbia and in Districts of Chester, Lancaster, York, Spartanburg and Union until July 1866.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 348 men during service; 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 340 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Colonel Isaac Dyer

References

Sources

Hodsdon, John L. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year 1864 and 1865. 1866, Stevens & Sayward, Augusta, ME
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Shorey, Henry Augustus. The Story of the Maine Fifteenth (Bridgton, ME: Press of the Bridgton News), 1890. [reprinted in 2009, ISBN 1-4035-1866-1]

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, Iowa: Dyer Publishing Co.