27th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 27th Connecticut Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 42 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 22 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg in the Rose Woods west of The Wheatfield.

Mponument to the 27th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1862
October	Organized at New Haven for nine months service under colonel Richard S. Bostwick
October 22	Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Military District of Washington and duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.
November 7-19	3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac; Advance to Falmouth, Va.
December 12-15	Battle of Fredericksburg The regiment lost 110 casualties
1863
January 20-24	"Mud March"
January - April	At Falmouth; attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
April 27-May 6	Chancellorsville Campaign
May 1-5	Battle of Chancellorsville Eight of ten companies captured in a desperate rearguard action. Colonel Bostwick ordered the color guard and the colors to stay behind, saving them from capture.
June 11-July 24	Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3	Battle of Gettysburg The regiment lost 10 killed, 23 wounded and 4 missing at Gettysburg out of 75 men - almost 50% casualties. It was only three companies strong after its losses at Chancellorsville. When Lt. Col. Mervin fell, Major James H. Coburn took command of the regiment. From the regiment's monument at Gettysburg: "The 27th Regt. Conn. Vols. commanded by Lieut. Colonel Henry C. Merwin and forming a part of the 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps charged over this ground the afternoon of July 2, 1863." "The 4th Brigade forced the enemy from the Wheat Field and beyond the woods in front where the advanced position of the 27th Regt. is indicated by a tablet on the crest of the ledge. On this spot Lieut. Col. Merwin was killed while gallantly leading his command of 75 officers and men 38 of whom were killed or wounded in the charge. Eight companies of the regt. captured at Chancellorsville were still prisoners of war." "Capt. Jedediah Chapman Jr. was also killed in the charge wile commanding a company organized from detached members of the eight companies taken prisoner at Chancellorsville."
July 18	Regiment leaves army to be discharged. They were reunited on the way home to New Haven with the 279 men captured at Chancellorsville, who had been parolled.
July 27	Mustered out