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Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry (Union)

25/08/62

Organized - Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry - Connecticut

13/12/62

Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia

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Fredericksburg

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

11/04/63

Battle - Siege of Suffolk - Suffolk, Virginia

3/05/63

Battle - Providence Church Road, Virginia

30/07/64

Battle - Crater - Petersburg, Virginia

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Crater

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

7/03/65

Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Charles L. Upham

7/03/65

Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Samuel P. Carter

Brigadier GeneralSamuel P. Carter

7/03/65

Battle - Wyse Fork - Kinston, North Carolina

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Wyse Fork

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

12/07/65

Mustered Out - Connecticut 15th Volunteer Infantry - Connecticut

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