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Home What's New Site Map Civil War 15th at Antietam
In Honor of those who fought
Listed below are the casualties for the Brookfields
15th Reg. Mass. Vols.
Here, September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, with
the first company Andrew Sharpshooters
attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded
by Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's
Brigade. Sedgwick's Division, Second Army
Corps, met and engaged troops of the
Brigades of Semmes, Early, and Barksdale.
Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75
killed and 255 wounded,
43 dying of wounds.
The back of the monument lists the Killed and Died of Wounds for the 15th
Regiment.
Listed here is the Killed
and Died of Wounds for
Company F from the
Brookfields only.
Killed
Co. F
Sergt. Elisha F. Johnson
Corp'l William L. Blood
" Joseph G. Fretts
" John W. Heath
Private Henry R. Bliss
" Shepard Brown
" Benjamin Davis
" John H. Hillman
" Alfred L. Russell
" James E. Sargent
" Justus C. Wellington *
Died of Wounds
Co. F
Corp'l William L. Adams *
Private William H. Clark
" Albert W. Livermore *
" Charles Perry
" William E. Vanever *
* from West Brookfield
photographs by Kathy &
Nancy Parker
Copyright © 2001 West Brookfield Historical Commission
Last modified:
12/03/2007
