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A regimental history recounts the organization, training, and nine-month service of a Connecticut volunteer regiment, describing recruitment from local towns, camp life near Washington, marches into Virginia, and detailed accounts of major engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. The narrative combines tactical description and soldierly experience, noting hardships, captures, and casualties, and includes memorial reflections. The work closes with systematic records: casualty lists, catalogs of commissioned officers and enlisted men, and promotion registers that document the unit’s personnel and losses.

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Title: The "Twenty-Seventh": A Regimental History

Author: Winthrop Dudley Sheldon

Release date: February 3, 2020 [eBook #61312]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The three footnotes in the Catalogues (Chapters IX to XII) have multiple anchors denoted by [A], [B] and [C]. These footnotes have been left at the end of each relevant section, as in the original text. The footnotes are listed here for easy reference:
[A]   Taken prisoner at Fredericksburg.
[B]   Taken prisoner at Chancellorsville.
[C]   Taken prisoner at Gettysburg.

Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.


THE

“TWENTY-SEVENTH.”

A REGIMENTAL HISTORY.

BY

WINTHROP D. SHELDON, A.M.,

LATE LIEUTENANT COMPANY H.



NEW-HAVEN:

MORRIS & BENHAM.


1866.


TO THE

OFFICERS AND PRIVATE SOLDIERS

OF THE

TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT CONN. VOLUNTEERS,

THIS MEMORIAL OF PATRIOTIC SERVICE

IS

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.


CONTENTS.

PAGE
I.Camp near Washington,9
II.To the Front,17
III.Fredericksburg,22
IV.Camp near Falmouth,33
V.Chancellorsville,43
VI.On to Richmond,56
VII.Gettysburg,71
VIII.In Memoriam,89
IX.Record of Casualties,100
X.Catalogue of Commissioned Officers,115
XI.Promotions,119
XII.Catalogue of Enlisted Men,123

FREDERICKSBURG,

December 13th, 1862.


CHANCELLORSVILLE,

May 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863.


GETTYSBURG,

July 2d, 3d, and 4th, 1863.