Twenty-seventh Regiment Infantry

Organized at Portland and mustered in for nine months' service September 30, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 20. Attached to Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, to February, 1863. 1st Brigade, Casey's Division, 22nd Corps, to April, 1863. 1st Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, 22nd Corps, to July, 1863.

SERVICE -- Duty at Arlington Heights, Va., October 23 to December 12, 1862, and at Hunting Creek until March, 1863. Moved to Chantilly, Va., March 24, and duty there until June 23. Ordered to rear for muster out June 26. Volunteered to remain beyond its time in the defenses of Washington during the Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign. Left Washington for home July 4. Mustered out July 17, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 21 Enlisted men by disease. Total 22.

from "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer, 1908