27th Ohio Infantry Regiment

The 27th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio July 15 through August 18, 1861, and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel John Wallace Fuller.

The regiment was attached to Army of the West and Department of the Missouri, to February 1862.

1st Brigade, 8th Division, Left Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862.

4th Brigade, District of Corinth, Mississippi, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to May 1863.

3rd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, 5th Division, XVI Corps, to November 1863.

Fuller's 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to March 1864.

The 27th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 11, 1865.

Left Ohio for St. Louis, Mo., August 20, then moved to Mexico, Mo., and duty on the St. Joseph Railroad until September 12.

Moved to St. Louis, Mo., February 2, 1862, then to Commerce, Mo.

Reconnaissance from Rienzi to Hatchie River September 30.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 12, 1863.

Red Mound or Parker's Cross Roads December 31.

Dodge's Expedition to northern Alabama April 15-May 8.

Duty at Memphis, Tenn., until October, and at Prospect, Tenn., until February 1864.

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.

Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and duty there until July.

Union veteran Private Thomas J. Owens of Co. C, 27th Ohio Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress