1861 |
September 12 |
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in under 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, Va. |
March 13
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Smithfield |
March 23-25 |
Advance toward Manassas |
April, 1862 |
Dept. 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 |
Guard trains of the army during battle of Bull Run |
1862 |
September |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 6 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
The regiment lost 41 killed and 168 wounded out of 443 men engaged during intense fighting in the Cornfield. |
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 |
June 11 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The 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"
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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 Veteranize 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 |
Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 70th Indiana Infantry. |
