27th Indiana Infantry
3rd Brigade
(Front):
This monument marks
the ground over which
the left wing of the
27th Indiana advanced in
a charge made by the
regiment of July 3d 1863.
Number engaged 339.
Killed and wounded 110.
Missing one.
(Left):Silas Colgrove Col.
The 27th Ind.
was organized in
August 1861 for three
years or during the war.
Reenlisted Jan, 1864.
Consolidated with the
70th Ind. Aug. 1864.
Mustered out in July 1865.
(Right):Battles
Front Royal.
Newtown.
Winchester.
Cedar Mountain.
Antietam.
Chancellorsville.
Gettysburg.
Resaca.
New Hope Church.
Kenesaw Mountain.
Peach Tree Creek.
Atlanta.
Averysboro.
Bentonville
(Back):27th Indiana Infantry
Total enrollment 1101
Killed & died of wounds 169
Wounded not mortally 527
Missing & captured 126
died of disease
& other causes 127
Marker is at the intersection of Colgrove Avenue and East Confederate Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Colgrove Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
