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15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument
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15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument

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Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Dedicated: September 17, 1900
Location: East side of State Route 65, North of the Visitor Center
Dedicated: September 17, 1900
Location: East side of State Route 65, North of the Visitor Center

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15th REG. MASS. VOLS.
Here, September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, with the first company Andrew Sharpshooters attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade. Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps, met and engaged troops of the Brigades of Semmes, Early and Barksdale. Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds.


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