CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
27th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
- Overview:
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27th Infantry Regiment, formed at Camp Stevens, Georgia, during the summer of 1861,
contained men from Pike, Bibb, Jackson, Taylor, Talbot, Appling, Quitman, and Clay counties.
Ordered to Virginia the regiment totalled 428 men in April, 1862, and was assigned to General
Featherston's and Colquitt's Brigade. It was prominent on many battlefields from Williamsburg to Chancellorsville, then
moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and later to Florida. After the fight at Olustee the 27th returned to Virginia. Here
it saw action at Drewry's Bluff
and Cold Harbor and in the long
Petersburg siege north of the
James River. At Seven Pines it
lost almost forty percent of the 392 engaged, had 9 killed and 76 wounded at Gaines' Mill, and 15 killed and 89 wounded
during the Maryland Campaign. It sustained 31 casualties at Chancellorsville and 74 at Olustee. In 1865 the unit participated in the
Battle of Bentonville and
surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. Its commanders were Colonels Levi B. Smith and
Charles T. Zachry; Lieutenant Colonels Septimus L. Brewer, Hezekiah Bussey, Jasper N. Dorsey,
James Gardner, William H. Rentfro, and John W. Stubbs; and Majors Charles J. Dennis Henry B.
Holliday.
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