27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Active	1861–1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Tennessee
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Maney's Brigade
Nickname(s)	"Twenty-seventh Tennessee"
Facings	Light blue
Arms	Enfield rifled muskets
Campaigns	Civil War Shiloh Murfreesboro Chickamauga Chattanooga Atlanta Franklin Nashville
Battle honor	Perryville
Disbanded	May 1, 1865
Commanders
Commanders	Christopher Williams † Alexander Caldwell

The 27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Twenty-seventh Tennessee) was an infantry formation in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonels Christopher Williams and Alexander Caldwell.^[1]

History

The Twenty-seventh Tennessee was organized on September 10, 1861, at Camp Trenton, from new and existing companies of volunteer infantry. Its 833 men were from the counties of Benton, McNairy, Obion, Henderson, Decatur, Crockett, Weakley, and Carroll. It was furnished arms at Columbus, Kentucky, then fought at Shiloh, Munfordville, and Perryville. The unit was assigned to Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, First Corps, Army of Tennessee, and on January 1, 1863, consolidated with the First (Field's) Tennessee Infantry. It participated in many conflicts from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations, and ended the war in North Carolina attached to Palmer's Brigade. The regiment totaled 580 effectives in December 1861, and lost fifty-four percent of the 350 at Shiloh and fifty-three percent of the 210 at Perryville. The First and Twenty-seventh had 83 casualties of the 457 at Murfreesboro, reported 14 killed and 75 wounded at Chickamauga, and in late 1863, totaled 456 men and 290 arms. Only a remnant surrendered on April 26, 1865.^[2]

Regimental order of battle

Units of the Twenty-seventh Tennessee included:

• Company A
• Company B
• Company C
• Company D (Felix Rebels)
• Company E (Decatur Tigers)
• Company F
• Company G
• Company H
• Company I
• Company K (Henderson County Sharpshooters)^[3][4]

See also

• Shiloh order of battle
• Perryville order of battle
• Murfreesboro order of battle
• Chickamauga order of battle
• Chattanooga order of battle
• Atlanta order of battle
• Franklin order of battle
• Nashville order of battle

Notes

1. Sifakis 1992, pp. 133-34.
2. Crute 1987, pp. 298–99.
3. Taylor 1886, pp. 415–29.
4. Hewett 1998, pp. 75–89.

References

• Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7.
• Hewett, Janet B., ed. (1998). Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. II 67. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Co. ISBN 1-56837-275-2.
• Sifakis, Stewart (1992). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Tennessee. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-2286-0.
• Taylor, John M. (1886). Lindsley, Dr. John Berrien, ed. Military Annuals of Tennessee I. Nashville: J. M. Lindsley & Co.

Further reading

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
• Carroll, John William (1898). Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll. Henderson, Tenn. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
• C.S. War Dept. (1863). Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863 (2nd ed.). Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph. pp. 402–03. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
• Hodge, Robert Lee; Seley, Shane (Directors) (2010). The Battle of Perryville: The Invasion of Kentucky (DVD). Hodge Films.
• Porter, James D. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History X. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Co.
• Sanders, Stuart W. (2014). Maney's Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press. ISBN 978-1-62619-264-5.
• "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
• Watkins, Sam. R. (1882). 1861 vs. 1862. "Co. Aytch", Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment; or, A Side Show of the Big Show. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House. Retrieved October 2, 2014.