27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Historical Data

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A Captain David L. Payne Camp, 
Sons of Union Veterans, Project.
Walt Cross wcross@okway.okstate.edu

Source: "Union Regiments of Kentucky" Capt. Thomas Speed
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27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Dick Robinson by Major (later
Major General) William Thomas Ward, General William Nelson, Edward H. Hobson, and John
H. Ward (later Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the the regiment). A camp of
instruction for recruits was then opened at Greensburg, Kentucky. Men were recruited
from Casey, Green, Taylor, Hart, Nelson, Hardin, Grayson, Breckinridge and Mead
counties. After some months of training and clashes with rebels from their own
training camp a scant 24 miles away, the 27th occupied Bowling Green, Kentucky in the
spring of 1862. They arrived at the site of the "Battle of Shiloh" after that terrible
conflict and were assigned to burial detail. They then returned to Kentucky and
participated in the "Battle of Perryville" and helped drive Confederate General Bragg
out of the state. In September of 1863 the 27th was reorganized as mounted infantry
and sent to join Union forces operating in East Tennessee under command of General
Burnside. There they paricipated in battles in the towns of Philiadelphia and
Knoxville, Tennessee. They were engaged in harrowing fighting that took them back and
forth across the Tennessee River in night time engagements with rebel forces. They
took part in battles around Atlanta including Pumpkin Vine Creek, Dallas, and Kennesaw
Mountain as a part of the 23 Corps. The unit then returned to Owensboro, Kentucky to
control Confederate guerrillas operating there. The unit was mustered out in December
1864. The regimental history was written by Colonel Ward and appears in "Union
Regiments of Kentucky" by Thomas Speed.


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