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Brigade, Division, Corps, and Army Assignments:
| 15th Alabama Regiment |
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| Colonel William C. Oates |
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| Aug 1861 |
Oct 1861 |
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Army of Potomac |
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| Oct 1861 |
Apr 1862 |
Trimble's |
E.K. Smith's/Ewell's |
Potomac Dist |
Dept of N. VA |
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| Apr 1862 |
May 1862 |
Trimble's |
Ewell's |
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Dept of N. VA |
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| May 1862 |
Jun 1862 |
Trimble's |
Ewell's |
Valley Dist |
Dept of N. VA |
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| Jun 1862 |
Jan 1863 |
Trimble's |
Ewell's |
2nd |
Army of N. VA |
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| Jan 1863 |
Feb 1863 |
Law's |
Hood's |
1st |
Army of N. VA |
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| Feb 1863 |
Apr 1863 |
Law's |
Hood's |
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Dept of NC and S. VA |
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| Apr 1863 |
May 1863 |
Law's |
Hood's |
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Dept of Southern Virginia |
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| May 1863 |
Sep 1863 |
Law's |
Hood's |
1st |
Army of Northern Virginia |
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| Sep 1863 |
Nov 1863 |
Law's |
Hood's |
Longstreet's |
Army of Tennessee |
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| Nov 1863 |
Apr 1864 |
Law's |
Hood's/Field's |
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Dept of East Tennessee |
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| Apr 1864 |
Apr 1865 |
Law's/Perry's |
Field's |
1st |
Army of Northern Virginia |
Advance to:
Recommended
Reading:
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates , by Glenn W. LaFantasie. Booklist: This excellent, scholarly biography
deals with a man best known as Joshua Chamberlain's principal opponent on Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle
of Gettysburg. Like his famous opponent, the 15th Alabama Regiment's commander, William C. Oates, knew the art of the infantry
officer. Born when much of his native Alabama
was still frontier, he survived six wounds, including the loss of his right arm. After the war, he was a distinguished and
eventually wealthy lawyer and state politician as well as a thoroughly unreconstructed rebel with a notoriously hot temper.
Continued below…
Yet he made
a scandal at the end of his career when, at a state constitutional convention, he advocated no racial limitations on voting
rights… A valuable addition to the Civil War shelves. About the Author: Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Frockt Family Professor
of Civil War History and the Director of the Center for the Civil War in the West at Western
Kentucky University. He is the bestselling author of Twilight at Little
Round Top. He has also written for several magazines and newspapers, including American History, North & South, MHQ: The
Quarterly Journal of Military History, The New York Times Book Review, America's Civil War, Civil
War Times Illustrated, and The Providence Journal.
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