27th Indiana Infantry Regiment

27th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Flag of the United States, 1863-1865
Active	September 12, 1861, to November 4, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	First Battle of Winchester Battle of Front Royal 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

Military unit

The 27th Indiana 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 Front Royal
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.

Roster List for all Indiana Regiments

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

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]

Notes

^ 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.
^ 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.