The 15th Infantry was mustered at New Haven in August, 1862, and left for Washington with 1,022 officers and men under Colonel Dexter R. Wright of Meriden, who resigned the following February on account of disability and was succeeded in April by Colonel Charles L. Upham also of Meriden. The regiment's first engagement was at Fredericksburg in December, 1862, where ten men were lost...
—The Meriden Weekly Republican (Meriden, Connecticut), Thursday, August 27, 1908, p. 4
The 15th Infantry was mustered at New Haven in August, 1862, and left for Washington with 1,022 officers and men under Colonel Dexter R. Wright of Meriden, who resigned the following February on account of disability and was succeeded in April by Colonel Charles L. Upham also of Meriden. The regiment's first engagement was at Fredericksburg in December, 1862, where ten men were lost...
—The Meriden Weekly Republican (Meriden, Connecticut), Thursday, August 27, 1908, p. 4
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