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15th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Battles and Casualties*
| 15th Alabama Regiment |
|
| Colonel William C. Oates |
| Location |
Date |
Killed |
Wounded |
POW |
Missing |
Losses |
|
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| 2nd Manassas, VA |
Aug 28 1862 |
21 |
60 |
0 |
0 |
81 |
|
|
| Ashland, VA |
Jun 1 1864 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Battle Mountain, VA |
Jul 24 1863 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
|
|
| Cedar Mountain, VA |
Aug 9 1862 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
|
|
| Chantilly, VA |
Sep 1 1862 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
|
| Chickamauga, GA |
Sep 19 1863 |
16 |
85 |
3 |
0 |
104 |
|
|
| Cold Harbor, VA |
Jun 27 1862 |
37 |
98 |
0 |
0 |
135 |
|
|
| Cold Harbor, VA |
Jun 1 1864 |
5 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
|
|
| Cross Keys, VA |
Jun 8 1862 |
6 |
35 |
8 |
0 |
49 |
|
|
| Dandridge, TN |
Jan 16 1864 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
| Darbytown Road, VA |
Oct 7 1864 |
2 |
36 |
3 |
0 |
41 |
|
|
| Deep Bottom, VA |
Aug 14 1864 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
11 |
|
|
| Fort Gilmer, VA |
Sep 29 1864 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Fort Harrison, VA |
Sep 30 1864 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
|
|
| Frayser's Farm, VA |
Jun 30 1862 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Fredericksburg, VA |
Dec 13 1862 |
2 |
28 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
|
|
| Gettysburg, PA |
Jul 1 1863 |
22 |
58 |
114 |
0 |
194 |
|
|
| Knoxville, TN |
Nov 15 1863 |
10 |
29 |
11 |
0 |
50 |
|
|
| Malvern Hill, VA |
Jul 1 1862 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| North Anna River, VA |
May 24 1864 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Petersburg, VA |
Jun 26 1864 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Petersburg, VA |
Jun 18 1864 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
| Petersburg, VA |
Apr 2 1865 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Sharpsburg, MD |
Sep 17 1862 |
12 |
53 |
11 |
0 |
76 |
|
|
| Shepherdstown, WV |
Sep 19 1862 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
|
|
| Spotsylvania Court House, VA |
May 8 1864 |
5 |
15 |
2 |
0 |
22 |
|
|
| Suffolk, VA |
Apr 15 1863 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
11 |
|
|
| Wauhatchie, TN |
Oct 28 1863 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
0 |
11 |
|
|
| Wilderness, VA |
May 6 1864 |
4 |
27 |
11 |
0 |
42 |
|
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| Winchester, VA |
May 25 1862 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Notes:
Try the internal search engine to research a particular battle, i.e., Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Spotsylvania
Court House, etc.
* Battles listed in alphabetical order, only battles
with losses recorded, and information obtained through: Confederate Military History, Extended Edition (19 Volumes);
The Union Army (9 Volumes); Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions From North Carolina in the Great
War 1861-1865 (5 Volumes); North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster (15 Volumes); Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies.
Recommended Reading: Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates, by Glenn W. LaFantasie. Booklist: This excellent, scholarly biography deals with a
man best known as Joshua Chamberlain's principal opponent on Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Like his famous opponent, the 15th Alabama Regiment's commander, William C. Oates, knew the art of the infantry officer. Born
when much of his native Alabama was still frontier, he survived
six wounds, including the loss of his right arm. After the war, he was a distinguished and eventually wealthy lawyer and state
politician as well as a thoroughly unreconstructed rebel with a notoriously hot temper. Continued below…
Yet he made a scandal at the end
of his career when, at a state constitutional convention, he advocated no racial limitations on voting rights… A valuable
addition to the Civil War shelves. About the Author: Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History
and the Director of the Center for the Civil War in the West at Western Kentucky
University. He is the bestselling author of Twilight at Little Round
Top. He has also written for several magazines and newspapers, including American History, North & South, MHQ: The Quarterly
Journal of Military History, The New York Times Book Review, America's
Civil War, Civil War Times Illustrated, and The Providence Journal.
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