15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The Survivors and their Undertakings as a Veterans' Group after the Civil War

(This page is about the various activities of the veterans of the 15th Massachusetts as a group after the war.  Many kept in touch with old camerads and attended the G.A.R. meetings and regimental reunions.   If you have reports or G.A.R. information on the 15th, I'll gladly post it with due credit.  Please use the telegraph key to contact me.

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June 1886	An excerpt from :  History of the Excursion of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment and its Friends to the Battle-Fields of Gettysburg, PA., Antietam, MD., Ball's Bluff, Virginia and Washington, D.C. May 31-June 12, 1886, by Capt. David M. Earle.
February 1888	An anecdote from the Oxford Mid-Weekley about the 15th and the 1st Minnesota.
13 Sept 1894	The national flag of the 15th Massachusetts, captured at Petersburg, was returned to Massachusetts.  Read about it HERE.
	The veterans at Antietam from "History of the Excursion of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment and its Friends to the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Antietam, Ball's Bluff and the City of Washington, D.C. Septmeber 14-20, 1900".   The book was published on the occasion of the dedication of the regimental monument at Antietam.
	Included in the book is a full page photo of the veterans on the summit of Little Round Top at Gettysburg.   If you can identify any of these people, please use the telegraph key and let me know.  This wonderful photos and the one above were sent by Michael Cunningham.

	A reunion photo from 1904.  This photo was found in boxes that have been in storage at the old Oxford library museum by Bob Ducharme.
1906	The 40th Regimental Reunion - article in the Worcester Spy, October 22, 1906
	The members of the Nathaniel Lyon GAR Post 61 of Webster at their 40th Anniversary in 1908.  Contributed by Bob Ducharme.

	The burials originally listed here have been transferred to the individual entries in Roster and Genealogies.
	Monument Inscriptions (all additions gratefully accepted.) The Memorial Tablets in Lancaster, Massachusetts The Memorial in Oxford, Massachusetts