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Official Documents15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
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Private Ole T.
Westby of Company H
Helped Colonel Heg captured two armed Rebel sentries
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The following are original reports, records, rosters, registers, and muster rolls relating to the 15th, which served in the Federal Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). These items are organized by publication source: the 15th, the State of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Government. Links are shown to transcribed copies of the documents which are posted on this web site. Many of these items contain information on 15th soldiers. If you are aware of official documents about the 15th, which are not listed here, please contact Scott Meeker at s.c.meeker@15thwisconsin.net. Thanks!
ANNUAL RETURN of the Alterations and Casualties to the 15th
Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Annual reports, written various
locations: unpublished, 1862-1865. These documents are in the collection of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. They contains
detailed information on regimental movements.
RETURN of the 15th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, Army
of the United States. Monthly reports written various locations:
unpublished, 1862-1865. These documents are in the collection of the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. They contain information
on regimental movements and assignments and absences of 15th soldiers.
Regimental
Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20, 15th Infantry, Office of Adjutant
General State of Wisconsin, circa 1885. This document is in the collection of
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives, Series 1142.
Report to the Governor on the
15th Wisconsin at the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
Colonel Hans C. Heg. Madison, Wisconsin: "Wisconsin State Journal,"
January 17, 1863. This is an after action report to Wisconsin Governor Howard
Solomon, dated January 9, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It was not
published in the Official Records. Article is entitled "The Fifteenth
Wisconsin before Murfreesboro -- Seven Days under Arms -- Five Days Fighting --
Report of Colonel Heg."
Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of
Wisconsin for the Years 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864. Madison,
Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Company, 1912. Pages 562-566 cover the 15th
Wisconsin from October 1, 1863, through October 1, 1864, including in storming
of Mission(ary) Ridge and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
Records
and Sketches of Military Organizations, Population, Legislation, Election, and
Other Statistics Relating to Wisconsin in the Period of the Civil War.
Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Company, 1914. One page history of the
15th Wisconsin.
Register of Commissions by Brevet
1864-1870. Madison, Wisconsin: unpublished. Contains names of
Wisconsin soldiers, including a number from the 15th, who were awarded brevet
ranks for acts of bravery. Includes descriptions of their actions.
Roster of Wisconsin
Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Madison,
Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Company, 1886. Rosters for the 15th Wisconsin are
in Volume I, pages 804-829. These are the official rosters of the 15th and
include all soldiers assigned to it. Lists their residence at time of
enlistment and some details on their military service in the 15th.
Wisconsin
Loses in the Civil War. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Printing
Company, 1915. Details on the 15th Wisconsin are on pages 74-78.
Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United
States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1865. Details on the 15th Wisconsin
are in Part VII, page 186.
"February 28-April 8, 1862. --
Operations at New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, and descent upon Union City,
Tenn. No. 19. -- Reports of Col. Napoleon B. Buford, Twenty-seventh Illinois
Infantry." The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This report at Series 1, Volume 8,
[S# 8] pages 115-118. Covers actions by U.S. Forces (which the 15th, commanded
by Colonel Heg, was attached to) against Island No. 10 and on a raid on
Confederate troops at Union City.
"November 15-20,
1862. -- Reconnaissance from Edgefield Junction toward Clarksville, Tenn. No.
2. -- Report of Lieut. Col. David McKee, Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry."
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1880-1901. This report at Series 1, Volume XX/1, [S# 29] pages 10-11.
Covers actions by 31st Brigade (which the 15th, commanded by Major Johnson, was
attached to) on an expedition against Confederate partisans. This document
includes orders from the 14th Army Corps ordering this expedition, and Special
Orders No. 22, Army of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee, November 21, 1862,
praising the expedition and Lieutenant Colonel McKee's leadership.
"December
25, 1862. -- Skirmish on the Wilson Creek pike, between Brent wood and
Petersburg, Tenn. No. 1. -- Report of Col. P. Sidney Post, Fifty-ninth Illinois
Infantry, Commanding brigade." The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This report at
Series 1, Volume XX/1, [S# 29] pages 163-164. Covers actions by 1st Brigade
(which the 15th, commanded by Colonel Heg, was temporarily attached to) of the
1st Division of the 20th Army Corps on a foraging expedition.
"December 26,
1862-January 5, 1863. -- The Stone's River or Murfreesborough, Tenn., Campaign.
No. 25. -- Report of Col. William P. Carlin, Thirty-Eight Illinois Infantry,
Commanding Second Brigade." The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This report at
Series 1, Volume XX/1, [S# 29] pages 280-283. Covers actions by 2nd Brigade
(which the 15th, commanded by Colonel Heg, was attached to) of the 1st Division
of the 20th Army Corps at the Battle of Stone(s) River, Tennessee. After the
battle Colonel Heg and the 15th were singled out for praise by Major General
Rosecrans for their bravery.
"March 6-7, 1863. --
Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough, including Skirmishes near Christiana and at
Middleton, Tenn. No. 3. -- Report of Col. Hans C. Heg, Fifteenth Wisconsin
Infantry." The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This report at Series 1, Volume
XXIII/1, [S# 34] pages 128-139. Covers actions by 2nd Brigade (which the 15th
was attached to) of the 1st Division of the 20th Army Corps. Major General
Rosecrans had placed Colonel Heg in temporary command of the 2nd Brigade.
"August
16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign, No. 84 - Report of Brig. Gen.
Jefferson C. Davis, U.S. Army, Commanding First Division."
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1880-1901. This report at Series 1, Volume XXX/1, pages 448-503. Covers 15th
Wisconsin and Heg's Brigade in the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September
19-20, 1863. General Davis was Colonel Heg's commanding officer at Chickamauga.
"August
16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign, No. 97 - Report of Col. John
A. Martin, Eight Kansas Infantry, Commanding Third Brigade."
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1880-1901. This report at Series 1, Volume XXX/1, pages 528-531. Covers the
15th Wisconsin and Heg's Brigade in the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia,
September 19-20, 1863. Colonel Martin commanded Heg's Brigade on the second day
of the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, after Colonel Heg was mortally wounded.
"September
29, 1863 - The Battle of Chickamauga, No. 99 - Report of Captain Mons Grinager,
Company K, Commanding 15th Wisconsin." The War of the
Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This
report at Series 1, Volume XXX/1. Covers the actions of the 15th Wisconsin in
the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19 and 20, 1863.
"May
1-September 8, 1864. -- The Atlanta Campaign. No. 60. -- Report of Lieut. Col.
Ole C. Johnson, Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry." The War of the
Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. This
report at Series 1, Volume XXXVIII/1, [S# 72] pages 416-421. Covers 15th
Wisconsin in General Sherman's successful campaign to capture Atlanta, Georgia.
Includes details on the 15th's bloody fighting at Pickett's Mill (Dallas),
Georgia, May 27, 1864.
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