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15th U.S. Infantry regiment

1861-07-23

U.S. Army unit organized at Wheeling, Virginia. Created by an act of Congress on July 23, 1861. Commander(s) (during the Civil War): Colonel Fitz John Porter, Colonel Oliver L. Shepherd.

Bibliography

The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief Theophilus Francis Rodenbough and William L. Haskin ed. (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1896), 610-629.
Frederick Dyer,A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1714.

Citation

15th U.S. Infantry regiment. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203974 (November 12, 2026).

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