15TH MASSACHUSETTS



DIVISION: FOURTH

BRIGADE: 2ND MA

HISTORY: ORGANIZED SPRING 1777 AT BOSTON FROM WORCHESTER, MIDDLESEX, CUMBERLAND, ESSEX, BERKSHIRE, AND BRISTOL COUNTIES. 

ENTERED VALLEY FORGE WITH 410 MEN ASSIGNED 222 FIT FOR DUTY, LEFT VALLEY FORGE WITH 322 ASSIGNED AND 197 FIT FOR DUTY.

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS WERE: SARATOGA, DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA-MONMOUTH.

Staff Officers
Colonel TIMOTHY BIGELOW
Lt. Colonel HENRY HASKELL
Major HUGH MAXWELL
Major DAVID BRADISH
Company Officers
Captain DANIEL BARNES
Captain JOSHUA BROWN
Captain PAUL ELLIS
Captain WILLIAM GATES
Captain JOSEPH HODGKINS
Captain ADAM MARTIN
Captain EDMUND MUNRO
Captain SILVANUS SMITH
Staff Officers

Chaplain

 
Quartermaster WILLIAM MACCARTHY
Adjutant  NATHANIEL NAZRO
Paymaster PHENEAS BOWMAN
Surgeon  JAMES E.B. FINLEY
Surgeon Mate  WILLIAM LITTLE S
Quartermaster Sergeant  JOSEPH  PIERCE
Sergeant Major JOHN FLOWERS
Drum Major WILLIAM RICE
Fife Major  EBENEZER HUDSON