The 15th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served with the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Among its notable battles were the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Chickamauga.
Company G,Ed Gleeson, Illinois Rebels - A Civil War Unit History of G Company, 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry Guild Press of Indiana, 1996 of the regiment was composed largely of residents of states outside Tennessee. Besides men from Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky, the company (originally named the "Illinois Company") included soldiers from the consistently Union states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.http://frontierhistory.blogspot.com/2009/07/pennsylvania-and-civil-war-southern.html Pennsylvania and the Civil War: Southern Sympathies, Pennsylvania Historical Society websiteChristine B. Keller, "Keystone Confederates: Pennsylvanians Who Fought For Dixie," Making & Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, edited by William Blair & William Pencak, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press., 2001: pp's. 1-22, 262-266)
See also List of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units
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