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15th Alabama Brigade
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Founded
The 15th Alabama was organized by James Cantey, formed at Ft. Mitchell, on the Chattahoochee River, in May 1861 -
The Battle of Malvern Hill
The Battle of Malvern Hill took place on July 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, on the seventh and last day of the Seven Days Battles -
The Second Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought August 28–30, 1862 a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run -
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17, 1862, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates -
The Battle of Gettysburg
It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War[7] and is often described as the war's turning point -
The Battle of Chickamauga
marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia -
The Knoxville Campaign
A series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863 designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville -
The Appomattox Campaign
On April 6, Lee's army suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Sayler's Creek, but continued to move to the west in an attempt to elude the Union Army. Cornered, outnumbered, and short of supplies, Lee finally agreed to surrender his army on April 9 at Appomattox Court House. -
The Battle of the Wilderness
The first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. -
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Fighting occurred on and off from May 8 through May 21, 1864, as Grant tried various schemes to break the Confederate line. In the end, the battle was tactically inconclusive, but with almost 32,000 casualties on both sides, it was the costliest battle of the campaign. -
The Battle of Cold Harbor
One of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. -
the Siege of Petersburg
The campaign was nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended over 30 miles (48 km) from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg.
