Alabama 15th Infantry (Confederate)
03/07/1861
Organized - Alabama 15th Infantry - Alabama
09/06/1862
Battle - Port Republic - Rockingham County, Virginia
One day after the battle at Cross Keys, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson concentrated his division east of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River near Port Republic against the isolated brigades of Brig. Gen. Erastus Tyler and Col. Samuel S. Carroll. Confederate assaults across the bottomland of the Lewis family farm, along the River Road, spearheaded by the Stonewall Brigade, were repulsed with heavy casualties. A Confederate flank attack, including a brigade of the Louisiana Tigers, overtook an ar…READ MORE
01/07/1862
Battle - Malvern Hill - Henrico County, Virginia
On June 30th, the retreating Federal Army of the Potomac finally stopped at the James River at the end of seven days of fighting outside of Richmond.READ MORE
09/08/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Isaac R. Trimble
Brigadier GeneralIsaac R. Trimble
09/08/1862
Battle - Cedar Mountain - Culpeper County, Virginia
Maj. Gen. John Pope was placed in command of the newly-constituted Army of Virginia on June 26th. Pope's orders were to defend Washington DC and Union-held northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan battled Robert E. Lee outside of Richmond. When McClellan was defeated at the end of the Seven Days battles less than a week later, Lee turned his attention north toward Pope while McClellan regrouped his army. Pope's three army corps were arrayed in a line from the Blu…READ MORE
28/08/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Isaac R. Trimble, and Captain William F. Brown
Brigadier GeneralIsaac R. Trimble
CaptainWilliam F. Brown
28/08/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alexander R. Lawton, and Major General Richard S. Ewell
Brigadier GeneralAlexander R. Lawton
Major GeneralRichard S. Ewell
28/08/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Isaac R. Trimble
Brigadier GeneralIsaac R. Trimble
28/08/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Captain William F. Brown
CaptainWilliam F. Brown
28/08/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Richard S. Ewell
Major GeneralRichard S. Ewell
28/08/1862
Battle - Second Bull Run - Prince William County, Virginia
After the early summer collapse of the Union Peninsula Campaign offensive to capture Richmond, Robert E. Lee sought to move his army north and threaten Washington DC before Union forces could regroup.READ MORE
01/09/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel James A. Walker, and Captain William F. Brown
ColonelJames A. Walker
CaptainWilliam F. Brown
01/09/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alexander R. Lawton
Brigadier GeneralAlexander R. Lawton
01/09/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Captain William F. Brown
CaptainWilliam F. Brown
01/09/1862
Battle - Chantilly - Fairfax County, Virginia
Confederate Maj. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson hoped to cut off the Union retreat from Manassas the day after the Confederate victory at the second battle fought there. Jackson's wing of Lee's army made a wide, flanking march, screened by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, north and then east, to take the strategically important village of Germantown. There, Maj. Gen. John Pope's only two retreat routes to Washington - the Warrenton Pike and the Little River Turnpike - converged. On September 1st, beyond Chanti…READ MORE
17/09/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel James A. Walker
ColonelJames A. Walker
17/09/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alexander Lawton, and Brigadier General Jubal A. Early
Brigadier GeneralAlexander Lawton
Brigadier GeneralJubal A. Early
17/09/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel James A. Walker
ColonelJames A. Walker
17/09/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alexander Lawton
Brigadier GeneralAlexander Lawton
13/12/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Robert Hoke
ColonelRobert Hoke
13/12/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Jubal A. Early
Brigadier GeneralJubal A. Early
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
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Evander M. Law
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
11/04/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Major General John B. Hood
Major GeneralJohn B. Hood
11/04/1863
Battle - Siege of Suffolk - Suffolk, Virginia
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Evander M. Law, and Colonel James L. Sheffield
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
ColonelJames L. Sheffield
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Evander M. Law, and Major General John Bell Hood
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
Major GeneralJohn Bell Hood
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Isaac B. Feagin
Lieutenant ColonelIsaac B. Feagin
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Major General John Bell Hood
Major GeneralJohn Bell Hood
01/07/1863
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
19/09/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel James Sheffield
ColonelJames Sheffield
19/09/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Evander M. Law
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
19/09/1863
Battle - Chickamauga - Catoosa County, Georgia; Walker County, Georgia
After the successful Tullahoma Campaign, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans continued the Union offensive, aiming to force Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army out of Chattanooga. Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga and into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans' army at Davis' Cross Roads. While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Un…READ MORE
28/10/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Evander M. Law, and Colonel James L. Sheffield
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
ColonelJames L. Sheffield
28/10/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Micah Jenkins
Brigadier GeneralMicah Jenkins
28/10/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel William C. Oates
ColonelWilliam C. Oates
28/10/1863
Battle - Wauhatchie - Hamilton County, Tennessee
Wary of troops marching to the aid of the Federal army besieged at Chattanooga, General Braxton Bragg ordered General James Longstreet to take action against the force massing in Lookout Valley. In a rare nighttime attack, a division of Longstreet's corps attacked the Union rearguard near the crossroads of Wauhatchie. The brief fight was a bloody repulse for the Confederates, who were forced to withdraw. The Confederates had missed their last best chance to prevent supplies from reaching the Union Army of…READ MORE
05/05/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William F. Perry
ColonelWilliam F. Perry
05/05/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Charles W. Field
Major GeneralCharles W. Field
05/05/1864
Battle - Wilderness - Spotsylvania County, Virginia; Orange County, Virginia
The first battle between Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee erupted late in the morning of May 5, 1864, as Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's Union V Corps attacked Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps on the Orange Turnpike southwest of the old Chancellorsville battlefield. Although Federal infantry managed to break through at several points, the Confederate line held. Fighting shifted to the south as Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps engaged Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps and ele…READ MORE
08/05/1864
Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE
31/05/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Evander M. Law, and Colonel William F. Perry
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
ColonelWilliam F. Perry
31/05/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Evander M. Law
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
31/05/1864
Battle - Cold Harbor - Hanover County; near Mechanicsville, Virginia
After two days of inconclusive fighting along Totopotomoy Creek northeast of Richmond, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee turned their sights on the crossroads of Cold Harbor. Roads emanating through this critical junction led to Richmond as well as supply and reinforcement sources for the Union army. On May 31, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry captured Cold Harbor. The next day, Sheridan held the crossroads against a Confederate attack. With reinforcements from both armies arriving…READ MORE
09/06/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William F. Perry
ColonelWilliam F. Perry
14/08/1864
Battle - Second Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
As he had done in late July during the Battle of the Crater, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant called upon Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his Second Corps to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces around Richmond to exploit suspected weaknesses in Lee's lines. In early August, Grant had detached the Sixth Corps from the Union lines around Richmond and Petersburg and sent them to the Shenandoah Valley under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sheridan's new army there was to counter Gen. Jubal Early, then operating in the v…READ MORE
20/09/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Pinckney D. Bowles
ColonelPinckney D. Bowles
20/09/1864
Battle - Chaffin's Farm - Henrico County, Virginia
07/10/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - undefined Col. W. F. Perry
07/10/1864
Battle - Darbytown and New Market Roads - Henrico County, Virginia
09/04/1865
Battle - Appomattox Court House - Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Between 26,000 and 28,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered and were paroled.READ MORE
09/04/1865
Mustered Out - Alabama 15th Infantry - Alabama
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