27th Indiana Infantry Regiment

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The 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 159 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 131 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War out of a total enrollment of 1,101. The regiment is honored by a monument at Antietam, a monument on the Chancellorsville battlefield and a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.

1862
September 12 The 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment was organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in under the command of Colonel Silas Colgrove
September 15 Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Stile’s 3rd Brigade, Banks’ Division, Army of the Potomac. Operations in District of the Upper Potomac and camp at Frederick City, Md.
March, 1862 Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps
March 3-9 Movement into the Shenandoah Valley, Va., and occupation of Winchester, Virginia
March 13 Smithfield
March 23-25 Advance toward Manassas
April, 1862 Attached to the Department of the Shenandoah
May 15-June 17 Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley and operations in the Shenandoah Valley
May 23 Buckton Station, Middletown and Front Royal
May 24 Newtown
May 25

Battle of Winchester
May 25-26 Retreat to Williamsport, Md.
June, 1862 Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia; Duty at Front Royal. The regiment’s Belgian rifles were replaced by Enfield rifles.
July 6 – August 6 At Little Washington
August 9
Battle of Cedar Mountain
August 16

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia
August 28-30

Second Battle of Manassas (Second Bull Run)

Guarded trains of the army during the battle.
September Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 6

Maryland Campaign
September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

The 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment lost 41 killed and 168 wounded out of 443 men engaged during intense fighting in the Cornfield.

From the first War Department marker to Gordon’s Brigade in The Cornfield on the Antietam battlefield:

Gordon’s Brigade formed line at daybreak on the Hoffman farm and advanced in a southerly direction in support of Hooker’s Corps.

The 107th New York was detached to support Cothran’s Battery and the 13th New Jersey was held in reserve. The Brigade formed on either side of Ransom’s Battery on the high ground due east of D. R. Miller’s, where it repulsed an assault of Hood’s Division and its support and, moving south through the Cornfield, changed front to the right and took position behind the ridge parallel to the Hagerstown Pike, where it remained until it was relieved by the advance of Sedgwick’s Division and withdrawn to the East Woods.

From the second War Department marker to Gordon’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

Immediately after the withdrawl of Gordon’s Brigade to the East Woods, after being relieved by Sedgwick’s Division, it was ordered to the support of that Division in the West Woods.

The 13th New Jersey and 2nd Massachusetts advanced into this road – the former north and the latter south of this point – where they encountered such a destructive fire from the enemy that they were compelled to retire to the East Woods. Later in the day, the 13th New Jersey advanced into the woods west of the Dunkard Church and took position on the right of Greene’s Division.

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September 18 Moved to Harper’s Ferry, W. Va.; Picket duty from Harper’s Ferry to Opequan Creek and duty at Fairfax Station and Stafford Court House
December 12-16 March to Fredericksburg, Va.
1863
January 20-24
Burnside’s 2nd Campaign, “Mud March”
January 25 At Stafford Court House
April 27

Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29 Germania Ford
May 2-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

From the monument on Berry-Paxton Drive:

Held this position from 7p.m. May 2nd to 9 a.m. May 3rd, 1863.
Present for duty 300
Killed 36, Wounded 114
June 11

Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3
Battle of Gettysburg

The 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment was commanded by Colonel Silas Cosgrove until he took command of the brigade on July 2nd. Lieutenant Colonel John R. Fesler then took over the regiment.

From the monument:

This monument marks the ground over which the left wing of the 27th Indiana advanced in a charge made by the regiment on the morning of July 3rd, 1863. Number engaged 339. Killed and wounded 110. Missing, one

Silas Colgrove Col. The 27th was organized in August 1861 for three years or during the war. Reenlisted Jan. 1864. Consolidated with the 70th Ind. Aug. 1864. Mustered out in July 1865
July 5-24 Pursuit of Lee, to Manassas Gap, Va.
August 15 – September 5 On detached duty in New York during draft disturbances
September 24-October 3 Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. Transferred to Army of the Cumberland
October 4 Guarding Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad at Elkwater Bridge and Tullahoma, Tenn.
1864
January 24 Regiment Veteranized at Tullahoma, Tenn.
April 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
May 1 to September 8 Atlanta Campaign
May 8-11 Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge
May 14-15
Battle of Resaca

The regiment lost 68 casualties while capturing the colonel, colors and many of the men of the 38th Alabama Infantry Regiment
May 19 Near Cassville
May 25 New Hope Church
May 25 – June 5 Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and batties about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills
June 10 – July 2 Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain
June 11-14 Pine Hill
June 15-17 Lost Mountain
June 15 Gilgal or Golgotha Church
June 17 Muddy Creek
June 19 Noyes Creek
June 22
Kolb’s Farm (Peachtree Creek)

Colonel Colgrove was badly wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Fesler took command of the regiment.
June 27

Assault on Kenesaw
July 4 Ruff’s Station, Smyrna Camp Ground
July 5-17 Chattahoochie River
July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek
July 25 –
August 25

Siege of Atlanta
August 26 – September 2 Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge
September 2 – November 4 Occupation of Atlanta
November 4 The 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 70th Indiana Infantry.