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From: "mbolive" <>
Subject: [MO-CW] RE: Who?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:17:43 -0400


Hello List,
As you can tell, I am very interested in this topic.
I know that my great grandfather, Naril Politte, was in Company F 15th
Missouri Infantry. He has a government marker on his grave.

Is there any way I can find out exactly which of the actions below he was
in? Was it possible he was in all of them?
How can I find out more on his military life experiences? This is what was
on the internet when I did a few searches. (This is a very popular subject
on the internet. I was sent to many sites to find this one.)
Do I have the right site?
Was this a Union or a Confederate unit? Yes I am still a very much a novice
on this subject.
Can I find out if he was ever wounded or captive?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank
Janet




15th Regiment Infantry

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., August and September, 1861. Moved to Jefferson
City, Mo., September, 1861. Attached to Fremont's Army of the West to
January, 1862. 5th Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri, to March, 1862. 1st
Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Southwest Missouri, to May, 1862. 1st
Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Mississippi, to September, 1862. 35th
Brigade, 11th Division, Army of Ohio, to October, 1862. 35th Brigade, 11th
Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd
Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January,
1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to
October, 1863, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to April, 1864.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd
Division, 4th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to December, 1865.


SERVICE.--Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo., October 4-November 8,
1861. Moved to Rolla, Mo., and duty there until February, 1862. Curtis'
Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas against Price February and March. Advance
on Springfield February 2-11. Pursuit of Price into Arkansas February 14-29.
Battles of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6-8. March to Batesville April 5-May 3.
Moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., May 11-22; thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.,
May 23-26. Siege of Corinth May 27-30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6.
At Rienzi until August 26. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, August 26-September
14; thence to Louisville, Ky., September 17-19. Pursuit of Bragg into
Kentucky October 1-16. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to
Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7. Duty at Nashville until December
26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December
30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty near Murfreesboro until June.
Expedition toward Columbia March 4-14. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma)
Campaign June 23-July 7. Fairfield June 27-29. Estill Springs July 2.
Reconnaissance to Anderson July 11-14. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until
August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and
Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22, Battle of Chickamauga
September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23.
Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24.
Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. March to
relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Operations in East
Tennessee December, 1863, to February, 1864. Dandridge January 16-17, 1864.
Moved to Chattanooga, thence to Cleveland, Tenn., and duty there until May,
1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstration on Rocky Faced
Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May
14-15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near Cassville May 19.
Advance on Dallas May 22-25, Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and
battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine
Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Buckhead, Nancy's
Creek, July 18. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August
25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August
31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood and
Forest in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. Nashville
Campaign November and December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Spring
Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville
December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
Columbia December 19. Pulaski December 25. March from Pulaski to Decatur,
Ala., and duty there until April, 1865. Moved to Blue Springs April 1-5,
thence to Nashville, Tenn., April 19, and duty there until June. Moved to
New Orleans June 15-23, and to Port Lavaca, Texas, July 18-24. Duty there
until October. Moved to Victoria October 27 and duty there until December.
Mustered out December 25, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 8 Officers, and 107 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 106 Enlisted men by disease. Total 222.


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