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Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Infantry.
Heckman's Brigade —
Weitzel's Division--Eighteenth 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 | 2 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25 |
| Company | A | | 9 | 9 | | 36 | 36 | 131 |
| | B | | 10 | 10 | 1 | 29 | 30 | 156 |
| | C | | 10 | 10 | | 44 | 44 | 197 |
| | D | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 23 | 23 | 155 |
| | E | | 15 | 15 | | 14 | 14 | 133 |
| | F | 1 | 30 | 31 | | 13 | 13 | 155 |
| | G | | 6 | 6 | | 20 | 20 | 123 |
| | H | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 24 | 24 | 129 |
| | I | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 37 | 38 | 158 |
| | K | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 20 | 20 | 147 |
| Totals | 9 | 128 | 137 | 3 | 261 | 264 | 1,509 |
Total of killed and wounded, 487.
Deaths in Confederate prisons, 116.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Roanoke Island, N. C. | 5 | Drewry's Bluff, Va. | 22 |
| New Berne, N. C. | 15 | Cold Harbor, Va., June 2 | 5 |
| Guerillas, N. C., Nov. 7, 1862 | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va., June 3 | 24 |
| Goldsboro, N. C. | 1 | Cold Harbor Trenches, Va. | 3 |
| Winfield, N. C. | 2 | Petersburg, Va. (assault) | 22 |
| Washington, N. C. | 2 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 12 |
| Gum Swamp, N. C. | 3 | Foster Bridge, N. C. | 1 |
| Port Walthall, Va. | 2 | South West Creek, N. C. | 8 |
| Arrowfield Church, Va., | 7 | Picket duty | 2 |
notes.--Recruited in the western part of the
State, and arrived at
Annapolis, Md., on November 5, 1861.
It remained there undergoing instructions and drill for two months, and then sailed for
North Carolina.
It was assigned to
Foster's (1st) Brigade, and fought under
Burnside at
Roanoke Island and New Berne, its casualties in the latter action amounting to 9 killed and 43 wounded. The regiment remained in
North Carolina during the next two years.
Colonel Lee was in command of the brigade most of the time, leaving the regiment to the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Luke Lyman.
During its stay in
North Carolina it was engaged with credit in numerous minor battles and skirmishes.
In April, 1864, it joined the Army of the James in its advance on
Richmond.
At the battle of
Drewry's Bluff the regiment was surrounded while fighting in a dense fog, losing in addition to its killed and wounded, 252 of its number taken prisoners.
Among the captured were the
Colonel,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and
General Heckman.
Part of the regiment escaping, the command devolved upon
Major William A. Walker, who was killed soon after at Cold Harbor.
On that bloody field the remnant of the Twenty-seventh lost 22 killed, 68 wounded, and 4 missing. In the assault on
Petersburg, June 15, 1864, it sustained a further loss of 13 killed, and 30 wounded. In August, 1864, the regiment returned to
North Carolina where it served until mustered out in June, 1865.
