Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
25/08/1862
Organized - Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry - Connecticut
13/12/1862
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
11/04/1863
Battle - Siege of Suffolk - Suffolk, Virginia
03/05/1863
Battle - Providence Church Road, Virginia
30/07/1864
Battle - Crater - Petersburg, Virginia
Two weeks after Union forces arrived to invest the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, the battle lines of both sides had settled into a stalemate. Since Cold Harbor, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was reluctant to mount a frontal attack against well-entrenched Confederates. By late June, Grant's lines covered most of the eastern approaches to Petersburg, but neither side seemed ready to risk an offensive move. Part of the Union line was held by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's Ninth Corps. Some of Burnside'…READ MORE
07/03/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Charles L. Upham
ColonelCharles L. Upham
07/03/1865
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Samuel P. Carter
Brigadier GeneralSamuel P. Carter
07/03/1865
Battle - Wyse Fork - Kinston, North Carolina
By the end of February 1865, the North Carolina port city of Wilmington, defended by Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, had fallen to the army of Union Maj. Gen. John Schofield. The port city became a supply base for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's army in North Carolina, then beginning to close in on Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army. To consolidate forces against Johnston, Sherman ordered Schofield's Army of the Ohio to advance inland from Wilmington, at the same time assigning Maj. Gen. Jacob Cox to move the U…READ MORE
12/07/1865
Mustered Out - Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry - Connecticut
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