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Twenty-Seventh Michigan Infantry.
Hartranft's Brigade —
Willcox's Division--Ninth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | | | | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 115 |
| | B | | 14 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 24 | 128 |
| | C | | 21 | 21 | | 14 | 14 | 119 |
| | D | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 22 | 22 | 137 |
| | E | 2 | 20 | 22 | | 26 | 26 | 145 |
| | F | | 20 | 20 | | 20 | 20 | 116 |
| | G | 3 | 16 | 19 | 1 | 21 | 22 | 135 |
| | H | | 16 | 16 | | 21 | 21 | 143 |
| | I | | 12 | 12 | | 10 | 10 | 114 |
| | K | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 10 | 10 | 115 |
| | L | | 17 | 17 | | 13 | 13 | 101 |
| | M | 1 | 26 | 27 | | 12 | 12 | 101 |
| Totals | 10 | 215 | 225 | 3 | 204 | 207 | 1,485 |
225 killed == 15.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 805; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 36.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Jackson, Miss. | 3 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 6 |
| Blue Springs, Tenn. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864） | 38 |
| Campbell's Station, Tenn. | 4 | Petersburg Mine, Va. | 21 |
| Fort Sanders, Tenn. | 3 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 19 |
| Siege of Knoxville, Tenn. | 4 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 10 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 20 | Peeble's Farm, Va. | 2 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 60 | Picket, Va., December 13, 1864 | 1 |
| North Anna, Va. | 5 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 3 |
| Bethesda Church, Va., June 3, 1864 | 25 | | |
Present, also, at
Jamestown, Ky.;
Vicksburg, Miss.;
Loudon, Tenn.;
Ny River, Va.;
Hatcher's Run, Va.;
Fort Stedman, Va.
notes.--Left the
State, April 12, 1863, with eight companies only.
It was ordered to
Kentucky, where it was stationed at various points until June, when it was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division (
Welsh's), Ninth Corps, with which it moved to
Vicksburg and took part in the siege.
Companies I and K joined the regiment in March, 1864, and in the next month, after arriving in
Virginia, two independent companies of sharpshooters were also attached, being designated as L and M. During the
Wilderness campaign it was in
Hartranft's (1st) Brigade,
Willcox's (3d) Division, but was subsequently placed in the First Brigade, First Division, with
Willcox still in command.
The regiment took 864 men into the
battle of the Wilderness, losing 78 in killed and wounded,
Major Samuel Moody being among the killed.
Under command of
Colonel Fox, the regiment was engaged in several closely contested actions at
Spotsylvania, the casualties amounting in the one which occurred May 12th, to 27 killed, 148 wounded, and 9 missing. The entire loss of the regiment in May, 1864, was 47 killed, 220 wounded, and 16 missing--a total of 283.
At Bethesda Church it lost 17 killed and 57 wounded; at the assault on
Petersburg, June 17th and 18th, it lost 17 killed, 106 wounded, and 5 missing; in the
Petersburg trenches, during July, 1864--including the
Mine Explosion — it lost 15 killed, 78 wounded, and 23 missing.
