Massachusetts Monuments at Antietam
The monument to the 15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at Antietam is on the east side of State Route 65, north of the Visitor Center. (Philadelphia Brigade Park tour map) Philadelphia Brigade Park is through the trees behind the monument.
The 15th Massachusetts is also honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
About the monument
The monument features a wounded lion, still roaring and its right paw raised in defiance. A bronze tablet on the front tells the story of the regiment at Antietam. On the back is another bronze tablet listing all of the regiment’s killed and mortally wounded in the battle. At the base of the front is the trefoil symbol of the Union Second Corps. The monument was designed by sculptor A.O. Connor (whose name is on the side under the lion’s paw) and dedicated on September 17, 1900.
Text from the front of the monument:
15th REG. MASS. VOLS.
Here, Sept. 17th, 1862, the Fifteenth Reg. Mass.
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.
From the bronze tablet on the rear of the monument:
Killed
Co. B
Capt. Clark S. Simonds
Private John Campbell
” ” Daniel Carpenter
Co. C
Capt. Richard Derby
Private Zadoc Batterson
” ” Hiram A. Chambers
” ” John Frazer
” ” Charles E. Holbrook
” ” John P. Larkin Co. I
” ” George W.B. Sawyer
Co. D
Private Leander J. Owens
” William S. Sholes
” Charles H. Styles
” George H. Thompson
Co. E
Sergt. Amos H. Shumway
Private John H. Curran
” James H. Davis
” Alexander Thompson
” Conrad M. Tower
” Charles H. Wheelock
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 G. Wellington
Co. G
Private Arthur J. Andrews
” Asa T. Bryant
” Harrison J. Clisbee
” Edward S. Johnson
” Michael Dugan
” Orin L. Davis
” Benjamin R. Elliott
” Charles J. Merriam
” Lewis H. Moore
Co. H
Sergt. James B. Fletcher
Corpl. Henry A. Collar
Private Andrew Addision
” Henry W. Ainsworth
” O. W. Batchelder
” Patrick Finnegan
” Isaac E. Marshall
” George N. Smith
” Christopher Young
Co. I
1st Lieut. Frank S. Corbin
Private Henry L. Amidon
” Lucis H. Briggs
” George Butler
” William S. Chapman
” Charles G. Foster
” Abram Sargent
” George R. Stone
” Mose Wood
Co. K
1st Sergt. Thomas Fernald
Private Adam N. Baker
” E.R. Buffum
‘ Thomas Kelley
” James Shay
” Joseph T. Smith
” John L. Starrett
Andrew Sharpshooters, 1st Co.
Captain John Saunders
Lieut. William Berry
Sergt. John Q. Adams
” George Whittemore
Corpl. Richard A. Van Mall
Private Edwin T. Hills
” Joseph S. Ingalls
” Marcus M. Parmenter
” Warren Snow
” Martin V. Strong
Died of Wounds
Co. A
Corpl Franklin Garner Oct. 6, 1862
Co. B
Private George Adams Oct. 7, 1862
Co. C
Sergt. Joseph P. Johnson Oct. 14, 1862
Private Harlow D. Getchell Oct. 14, 1862
” Thomas Hastings Sept. 20, 1862
” Waldo B. Maynard Sept. 24, 1862
” Robert R. Moses Oct. 5, 1862
” Charles E. Warren Oct. 2, 1862
” Leonard M. Towsley Sept. 27, 1862
Co. D
Corpl. E.D. Jordan Sept. 26, 1862
Private Darney Cooney Sept. 25, 1862
” Silas D. Marsh Sept. 22, 1862
” Francis H. Noye’s Sept. 20, 1862
” Melville Walker Sept. 29, 1862
Co. E
Private Alfred W. Davis Sept. 22, 1862
” Edwin E. Rindge Oct. 21, 1862
Co. F
Corpl William L. Adams Oct. 10, 1862
Private William H. Clark Oct. 1, 1862
” Albert W. Livermore Jan. 18, 1863
” Charles Perry Sept. 27, 1862
” William E. Vaneaver Nov. 1, 1862
Co. G
1st Lieut. Thomas J. Spurr Sept. 27, 1862
Sergt. Jonathan P. Stow Oct. 1, 1862
Private George Burns Nov. 15, 1862
” Francis H. Marble Nov. 26, 1862
” James Hughes Sept. 28, 1862
” Willie E. Morse Dec. 20, 1862
” Alfred Snow Oct. 18, 1862
” Charles L. Mitchell Oct. 24, 1862
Co. H
Private Samuel Emerson Sept. 26, 1862
” Franklin L. Hayden Sept. 27, 1862
” Charles D. Smith Sept. 27, 1862
” Simon Sullivan Oct. 21, 1862
Co. I
Sergt. Edwin L. Parmenter Oct. 15, 1862
Private Henry Butler Nov. 14, 1862
” Edward L. Day Sept. 20, 1862
” Henry Hathaway Sept. 20, 1862
” Thomas P. Munyan Oct. 17, 1862
” Godfried Reideman Sept. 30, 1862
” Alfred Tourtellotte Oct. 19, 1862
Co. K
Private David Rodgers Dec. 27, 1862
” Francis F. Young Nov. 7, 1862
Andrews Sharpshooters
1st Co. Private Samuel D. Abbott Sept. 20, 1862
Location of the monument to the 15th Massachusetts Infantry at Antietam
The monument to the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment is north of Sharpsburg on the east side of Maryland Route 65 about 250 yards south of Starke Avenue. (39°28’42.5″N 77°45’05.5″W)