Post-war photo of Sergeant Bernt J. Madsen of Company B.

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Sergeant Bernt J. Madsen of Company B
Captured September 20, 1863, at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
Image WHi (X3) 30024, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Picture shown above has been electronically enhanced by Deep Vee Productions

The following books are about specific battles and campaigns the 15th was in during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Most contain references to the 15th and/or Heg's Brigade.


Castel, Albert, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Cozzens, Peter, No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Cozzens, Peter, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cozzens, Peter, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Hafendorfer, Kenneth A., Perryville: Battle for Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky: KH Press, 1991.

Marvel, William., Andersonville: The Last Depot. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

McDonough, James Lee, War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Scaife, William R., The Campaign for Atlanta. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton & Gunn, 1993.

The following provide insight into the day-to-day life of soldiers in the Federal Army during the war.

Hinman, Wilbur F., Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard. Galway, New York: York Publishing Company, 1993.

Scribner, Benjamin F., How Soldiers Were Made. Huntington, West Virginia: Blue Acorn Press, 1995.

Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

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