15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry lost 3 officers and 22 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 103 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862

July to October

Organized at Carlisle, Pa.

September 6-24

Attached to Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac. Engaged in scout and picket duty near Chambersburg, Pa., during Maryland Campaign.

September 6-15

Detachment moved to Greencastle, then to Hagerstown, Md.

September 12-13

Skirmish near Hagerstown

September 15

Hagerstown

September 16-17

Advance to Jones' Cross Roads and scouting during battle of Antietam, Md.

September 20-21

Led advance of Pennsylvania Militia to Williamsport

November 7

Regiment left State for Louisville, Ky.

December 8

Moved to Nashville, Tenn. and attached to Army of the Cumberland

December

Attached to Reserve, Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Cumberland

December 25

Skirmish on Hillsboro Pike, near Nashville, Tenn.

December 26-30

Advance on Murfreesboro

December 26-27

Nolensville

December 27

Triune

December 29

Wilkinson's Cross Roads

December 30

Lavergne

December 30-31

Battle of Stone's River

1863

January 1-3

Battle of Stone's River

January 4

Scout to Woodbury

January 5

Lytle's Creek

January-June

At Murfreesboro

March

Attached to Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland

April 4

Scout to Woodbury

April 5-6

Near Woodbury

April 7

The Barrens

Companies B, H & K at Dept. Headquarters.

June 22-July 7

Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign. Attache to Headquarters Army of the Cumberland

June 24

Near Rover

June 24

Detachment of Regiment on duty at Headquarters Army of the Cumberland until December of 1864, participating in the Atlanta and Nashville Campaigns

August 1

Winchester

August 16-September 22

Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign

September 19-21

Battle of Chickamauga

October

Duty in Sequatchie Valley attached to Cavalry, Dept. of the Cumberland

October 2

Near Dunlap

October 26

Sequatchie Valley

November 28-December 8

March to relief of Knoxville

December 10

Gatlinsburg

December 13

Near Dandridge Mills

December 14

Near Morristown

December 22-23

Near Dandridge

December 24

Dandridge

December 29

Mossy Creek, Talbot Station

1864

January 10-11

Scout from Dandridge to Clark's Ferry

January 14

Schultz's Mill, Cosby Creek (Detachment)

January 22

Near Wilsonville (Detachment)

January 28

Indian Creek

January 28-29

Fair Garden

January 28

Fain's Island

January 31-February 7

Expedition from Marysville to Quallatown. N. C.

February 5

Quallatown

February 12

At Chattanooga, Tenn.

February 22-27

Demonstration on Dalton, Ga.

February 23-25

Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge

March-April

Scouting

May 4

Ordered to Nashville, Tenn. and duty there attached to Post and District of Nashville, Dept. of the Cumberland

September 20-October 17

Gillem's Expedition from East Tennessee toward Southwest Virginia

September 29

Jonesboro and Watauga River

October 7

Kingsport

October 8

Rogersville

October-November

Scouting about Chattanooga

November

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi

December 13

Dalton

December 20 to January 6

Pursuit of Hood's forces and trains

December 28

Near Decatur, Ala.

December 29

Pond Springs

December 30

Near Leighton

December 31

Russellville

January 2

Nauvoo, Ala.

1865

January 3

Thorn Hill

January 5

Near Mr. Hope

January 13-16

Pursuit of Lyon

January 14

Red Hill

January 15

Warrenton

January 26

Paint Rock

March 21-April 25

Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina. Attached to 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, District East Tennessee, Dept. Cumberland

March 26-April 6

Demonstration on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad to near Lynchburg, Va. (Detachment under Major Wagner)

March 29

Yadkin River

April 1

Boone, N. C.

April 3

Hillsville and Wytheville, Va.

April 8

New London, Va.

April 8

Martinsville

April 11

Near Greensboro

April 12

Capture of Saulsbury

April 19

Jamestown, N. C.

April 22

Howard's Gap, Blue Ridge Mountains

May

Pursuit of Jeff Davis

June 21

Regiment except for Company A mustered out at Nashville, Tenn.

July 18

Company A mustered out