15th MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT WAR MEMORIAL
HERE SEPTEMBER 17, 1862, THE FIFTEENTH REGIMENT, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS, WITH FIRST COMPANY ANDREW SHARPSHOOTERS, ATTACKED. 606 MEN OF ALL RANKS, MET AND ENGAGED TROOPS OF THE BRIGADES OF SEMMES, EARLY AND BARKSDALE. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES 330 HAD FALLEN 75 KILLED AND 225 WOUNDED, 43 DYING OF WOUNDS.
Listing Details
- Public
- CIVIL WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1900
- HAGERSTOWN PIKE
- 21782
- CRAIG SWAIN
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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