27th Indiana Infantry Regiment

The 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

• The 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana on September 12, 1861.
• First Battle of Winchester
• Battle of Cedar Mountain
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Chancellorsville
• Battle of Gettysburg
• New York Draft Riots
• Battle of Resaca
• Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
• Siege of Atlanta
• The regiment mustered out of service on November 4, 1864. Recruits and veterans were transferred to the 70th Indiana Infantry.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 10 officers and 159 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 2 officers and 131 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 302 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

Monument at Gettysburg

• Colonel Silas Colgrove
• Lieutenant Colonel Archibald T. Harrison - older brother of Benjamin Harrison, future President of the United States
• Lieutenant Colonel Abisha L. Morrison
• Lieutenant Colonel John Roush Fesler
• Major John Mehringer
• Major William S. Johnson
• Major George W. Burge
• Major Theodore F. Colgrove^[2]

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments
• Indiana in the Civil War

Notes

1. ↑ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#27th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
2. ↑ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#27th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

References

• The Civil War Archive - Indiana Units
• Civil War - Indiana

Further reading

• Giants in The Cornfield: The 27th Indiana Infantry
• The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865