United States Regiments & Batteries > Michigan > 27th Michigan Infantry Regiment
The 27th Michigan Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 215 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 204 enlisted men to disease.
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1863
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| The regiment was organized at Port Huron, Ovid and Ypsilanti, Mich. | |
| April 10 | Eight companies of the 27th Michigan Infantry Regiment were mustered in |
| April 12 | Left Michigan for Kentucky |
| April | Duty at various points in Kentucky attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Ohio |
| June 2 | Action at Jamestown, Kentucky. |
| June 4-12 | Moved to Vicksburg. Mississippi and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
| June 14- July 4 |
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| July 4-10 | Advance on Jackson, Miss. |
| July 10-17. |
Siege of Jackson |
| July 18-22 | Destruction of Mississippi Central Railroad at Madison Station |
| July 23 | At Milldale |
| August 4-30 | Moved to Covington, thence to Crab Orchard, Kentucky and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Ohio |
| September 10-26 | March to Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| October 10 |
Action at Blue Springs |
| October | Duty at Lenoir |
| November 4-December 23 |
Knoxville Campaign |
| November 14 |
Loudon Station |
| November 16 |
Campbell’s Station |
| November 17-December 5 |
Siege of Knoxville |
| November 29 |
Repulse of Longstreet’s assault on Fort Saunders |
| December 6-18 | Pursuit of Longstreet |
| December 13 | Company I was mustered in |
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1864
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| January 4 | Company K was mustered in |
| January-March | Operations in East Tennessee |
| January 22 | Armstrong’s Ferry |
| January 24- March 2 |
Advance to Morristown |
| March | Companies I and K joined the regiment at Mossy Creek, Tennessee. |
| March 17-April 5 | Moved from Knoxville, Tenn., to Nicholasville, Ky.; then to Annapolis, Maryland. |
| April | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 4-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 10 |
Ny River |
| May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
| May 23-24 |
Ox Ford |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 1-3 | Bethesda Church |
| June 16, 1864 – April 2. 1865 |
Petersburg Campaign |
| July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
| September | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps |
| September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
| October 8 | Reconnoissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Roads |
| October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| March 25 |
Fort Stedman |
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1865
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| March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 |
Assault on Fort Mahone and fall of Petersburg |
| April 3 | Occupation of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 20-24 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June-July | Duty at Washington and Alexandria |
| July 26 | The 27th Michigan Infantry Regiment mustered out |