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- MICHIGAN FIFTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Second Lieutenant, James G. McBride, Adjutant
Company B Staff Officer
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MICHIGAN FIFTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
"Look to your arms, boys,
Your friends tried and true;
How the blood warms, boys,
The foe is in view."
Monroe, Michigan was the place of the rendezvous of the 15th Regiment. It was recruited under the direction of Colonel John M.Oliver, of that place.
The organization of the regiment being completed, it was mustered into service on the 20th of March, 1862, and left its camp at Monroe, in the command of Colonel Oliver, on the 27th of the same month, with 869 names on its rolls.
FIELD AND STAFF
Colonel, John M. Oliver, Monroe. Lieutenant Colonel, John McDermott, Detroit, Major, Stephen Walsh, Saginaw. Surgeon, Levi M. Garner, Holly. Assistant Surgeon, Horace P. Woodward, Blissfield. Adjutant, James G. McBride, Monroe. Quartermaster, Michael Twoomey, Monroe. Chaplain, Thomas M. Brady, Detroit.
COMPANY STAFF OFFICERS
A. Captain, John H. Waterman, Burr Oak. First Lieutenant, William J. St. Clair, St. Clair. Second Lieutenant, Jonathan Snook, Burr Oak,
B. Captain, Richard Loranger, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Moses A. Lapoint, Monroe.
Second Lieutenant, James G. McBride, Monroe.
Nell describes her Uncle Jim as having blue eyes, and a very large man.
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The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1842 - Yes, date unknown
d. 1879, MI 