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Twenty-Seventh Indiana Infantry.
Ruger's Brigade —
Williams's Division--Twelfth Corps.
Colonel Silas Colgrove;
Bvt. Brig.-Gen.
| 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 | 14 |
| Company | A | 3 | 16 | 19 | | 13 | 13 | 107 |
| | B | | 10 | 10 | | 10 | 10 | 111 |
| | C | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 13 | 13 | 102 |
| | D | 1 | 19 | 20 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 120 |
| | E | | 16 | 16 | | 13 | 13 | 118 |
| | F | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 11 | 11 | 103 |
| | G | | 15 | 15 | | 18 | 18 | 113 |
| | H | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 13 | 13 | 107 |
| | I | | 19 | 19 | | 13 | 13 | 104 |
| | K | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 10 | 10 | 102 |
| Totals | 10 | 159 | 169 | 2 | 131 | 133 | 1,101 |
169 killed == 15.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 616; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 12.
Present, also, at
Front Royal, Va.;
Cassville, Ga.,
Dallas, Ga.;
Lost Mountain, Ga.;
Kenesaw, Ga.
notes.--
Silas Colgrove was the typical “old-fashioned
Colonel” of the
American Army.
At times, brave and courageous to a fault; at others, careful and judicious to an admirable degree.
He was always kind and cheerful to his men, winning not only their admiration and respect, but their love and confidence.
His stanch, soldierly virtues were largely reflected in his men, making the Twenty-seventh a reliable and hard fighting regiment.
That it faced unflinchingly the musketry of many fields is clearly indicated in its extraordinary percentage of loss.
It left the
State September 15, 1861, and soon after its arrival at
Washington was assigned to
Banks's command.
It wintered near
Frederick, Md., and in the spring participated in
Banks's Shenandoah campaign.
After that, its history is identical with that of the Twelfth Corps and
Williams's Division.
Its casualties in battle were severe, especially in proportion to its numbers.
It lost at
Cedar Mountain 15 killed, 29 wounded, and 6 missing; at
Antietam, 8 killed, 191 wounded,
no missing; at
Chancellorsville, 20 killed, 126 wounded, and 4 missing; at
Gettysburg, 23 killed, 86 wounded, and 1 missing At
Resaca, Ga., the regiment captured the colors and the
Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Alabama, together with a large number of prisoners,
Colgrove handling his men well in this fight, the loss not exceeding 68 killed and wounded, while it inflicted five times that on the enemy.
In 1864 the designation of the
Corps was changed to the Twentieth, although the old badges and division commanders were retained.
The regiment served in the Twentieth Corps in the
Atlanta campaign, after which, its term having expired, it was mustered out.
