
Organized with four companies on June 8, 1863. Increased to a regiment and designated as the 15th Confederate Cavalry Regiment on September 24, 1863.
First Commander:
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel J. Murphy
Department of the Gulf
June-September 1863.



This regiment was organized at Mobile in the spring of 1864, and made up of companies which had picketed the coast for two or three years. It remained in the vicinity of Mobile till the fall, when it moved into Louisiana, and was engaged in a brilliant affair at Tunica. The Fifteenth also made head against Smith's army, with small loss. The Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry was engaged in the Battle of Blakley, the last major battle of the war, in Baldwin County, Al. The regiment disbanded at the downfall of the Confederacy, except two or three companies, which were paroled at Demopolis.
Colonels -- Harry Maury of Mobile.
Lieut. Colonels -- Thomas J. Myers of Florida.
Majors -- Robert Partridge of Florida.
Adjutants -- Wm. R. Jordan of Florida.
Mobile -- John H. Marshall; wounded and captured at Mississippi City.
Mobile -- Wm. Cottrill; resigned. E. T. Arrington.
Mobile -- J. E. Murrell.
Baldwin -- T. C. Barlow.
Chocta -- John McKellar.
[The other five companies were from Florida.]



T.C. Barlow, Captain
O. Sibley, Jr., 1st Lieutenant
R.M. McDavid, 2nd Lieutenant
A.O. Sibley, Brevet 2nd Lieutenant
L.W. Harris, Surgeon
H.H. McDavid, 1st Sergeant April 9, 1862, Blakeley
B.N. Davis, 2nd Sergeant April 9, 1862, Blakeley
J.L. Harris, 3rd Sergeant May 3, 1862, Stockton
J.F. Davis, 4th Sergeant April 9, 1862, Blakeley
S.B. Richerson, 5th Sergeant October 31, 1862, Camp Powell
M. Bonifay, Quartermaster Sergeant April 9, 1862, Blakeley
W.L. Stapleton, 1st Corporal April 9, 1862, Blakeley
A.J. Steadham, 2nd Corporal April 9, 1862, Blakeley
J.H. Wheeler, 3rd Corporal April 16, 1862, Blakeley
W.L. Williams, 4th Corporal May 12, 1862, Stockton
W.H. Weekley, 4th Corporal April 15, 1862, Stockton
L.H. Hall, Bugler July 1, 1861, Camp Powell
A.J. Pruett, Farrier April 16, 1862, Blakeley
E. Willis, Blacksmith February 22, 1863, Camp Powell
Avery, C.B., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Bankister, G.W., Oct. 27, 1862, Camp Powell
Bankister, H., June 17, 1864, Camp Powell
Bankister, L., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Barlow, I., May 10, 1864, Camp Powell
Bates, W.J., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Baughman, J.A., April, Blakeley
Beard, C.W., Oct. 30, 1862, Camp Powell
Bishop, C., April 16, 1862, Blakeley
Blake, E.L., May 11, 1864, Camp Powell
Boon, A.J., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Brackin, R., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Bryan, L.I., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Bryant, A.W., , , Blakeley
Bryant, H.W., April 16, 1862, Blakeley
Bryars, C., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Bryars, R.B., Oct. 15, 1862, Camp Powell
Bryars, W.L., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Burgess, J., May 17, 1864, Camp Powell
Cain, R.F., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Calloway, J.A., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Calloway, J.G., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Cartrett, H., Dec. 18, 1863, Hall’s Mill
Cartrett, J.V., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Cherry, A.S., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Cherry, W.H.H., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Colbert, Wm., April 9, 1852, Blakeley
Collier, E.M., May 15, 1864, Camp Powell
Commyns, Thos.,Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Conway, C.W., April 26, 1864, Camp Powell
Crosby, A.T., May 13, 1864, Camp Powell
Davis, A.J., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Davis, H.D., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Davis, J.W., May 15, 1864, Camp Powell
Davis, Thos. J., June 1, 1862, Camp Powell
Dees, T.H., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
D’Olive, A., April 15, 1862, Blakeley
D’Olive, J.L., Sept. 13, 1862, Shell Banks
D’Olive, S., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
D’Olive, V., , ,
D’Olive, W.L., Oct. 5, 1864, Mobile
Drew, J.A., Oct. 10, 1862, Shell Banks
Durant, N.S., May 16, 1864, Camp Powell
Durant, W.H., June 16, 1864, Camp Powell
Ezell, C.F., Sept. 1, 1862, Hall’s Mill
Ferguson, T.W., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Flaherty, JNO, April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Fletcher, J.F.L., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Fickling, C., Oct. 30, 1862, Camp Powell
Fickling, T., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Fulford, J. W., Sept. 23, 1862, Camp Powell
Gabel, JNO L. April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Gabel, M.V., May 12, 1862, Camp Powell
Gentry, J.W., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Gordon, A.J., Sr., Aug. 1, 1862, Mont Pleasant
Gordon, A.J., Jr., Oct. 6, 1862, Shell Banks
Greenwood, A., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Greenwood, J.L., Mar. 18, 1863, Camp Powell
Greenwood, J.S., Oct. 23,1862, Camp Withers
Greenwood, W.H.H., April 23, 1861, Mobile
Grist, J.R., Aug. 1., 1863, Camp Powell
Hadley, J.T., Oct. 31, Camp Powell
Hall, H.A., April 3, 1864, Pollard
Hall, W.P., Oct. 23, 1852, Camp Withers
Hammond, J.T., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Harris, L.J., Oct. 19,1862, Camp Powell
Hastie, J., II, April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Hatter, T.A., May 12, 1862, Stockton
Hinson, John, April 17, 1862, Stockton
Hollinger, A., April 2, 1862, Blakeley
Holmes, T.G., Sept. 1, 1863, Blakeley
Johnson, Jas., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Johnson, Jas. S., April 9,1862, Blakeley
Jones, H.W., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Jones, J.B., Oct. 10, 1862, Shell Banks
King, M., June 7, 1864, Camp Powell
Leavins, M., June 3, 1863, Camp Powell
Lewis, C., Oct. 16, 1862, Camp Powell
Long, F.B., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Lumsden, A.McD., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
McDavid, A.J., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
McDavid, J.F., May 11, 1864, Camp Powell
McDowell, A., May 9, 1864, Camp Powell
McGill, J.P., April 16, 1862, Blakeley
Miles, J.P., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Milsted, G.B., April 16, 1862, Blakeley
Milsted, J.E., Oct. 15, 1862, Camp Powell
Mitchell, J.R., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Moniac, D.A., Feb. 1, 1864, Hall’s Mill
Moniac, Geo., Oct. 1, 1862, Shell Banks
Moniac, J.R., May 24, 1864, Camp Powell
Moniac, M., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Montgomery, F., Aug.11,1863, Camp Powell
Myles, Joseph, Apt. 9, 1862, Blakeley
Nolly, R. McD., Sept. 1, , Mobile
Oliver, J.W., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Parazini, F., Oct. 24, 1862, Camp Powell
Parker, W.H., Oct. 29, 1862, Camp Powell
Payne, W., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Price, J.A., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Richards, A.J., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Richburg, H.C., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Richerson, E., May 16, 1862, Stockton
Shackleford, N.C., May 12, 1862, Stockton
Sheppard, J.H., June 10, , Blakeley
Sibley, A.W., Nov. 10, 1863, Hall’s Mill
Sibley, F.E., May 12, 1862, Stockton
Sibley, W.B., May 12, 1862, Stockton
Sirles, H., Dec. 22, 1862, Camp Powell
Stapleton, C.A., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Stapleton, E.O., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Stapleton, J.B., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Stapleton, N.B., Jan. 15, 1862, Camp Withers
Stapleton, W.F., Jan.15, 1862, Camp Withers
Starke, W.H., July 1, 1862, Camp Powell
Steadham, A.T., Nov. 10, 1863, Hall’s Mill
Steadham, E., Nov. 26, 1862, Camp Powell
Steadham, J.V., Oct. 29, 1862, Camp Powell
Stuart, R., Dec. , , Hall’s Mill
Stuart, R., J., Dec. 18, 1863, Hall’s Mill
Suares, A., July 12, 1861, Pensacola, Fla.
Suares, R., April 25, 1862, Camp Withers
Taylor, E.S., May 20, 1862, Mobile
Thompson, B., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Thompson, O., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Tompkins, S.Y., April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Underwood, M., June 7, 1864, Camp Powell
Underwood, R.R., Oct. 25, 1862, Camp Powell
Videl, John, April 9, 1862, Blakeley
Weekly, C., Oct. 31, 1862, Camp Powell
Weekly, J.B., Oct. 11, 1862, Camp Powell
Weekly, W.E., Oct. 31, , Camp Powell
Whitbee, Thos., April 15, 1862, Stockton
Wilkins, C.E., April 26, 1864, Camp Powell
Wilkins, C.T., June 2, 1864, Camp Powell
Wilkins, J.W., April 12, ,Stockton
Woods, M., April 15, 1862, Stockton