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Title: The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865, First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: (Brown, Edmund Randolph) 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Monticello, Ind.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, TOGETHER WITH A ROSTER OF THE MEN COMPOS-ING IT, AND THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE KILLED IN BATTLEOR WHO DIED OF DISEASE, AND, AS FAR AS CAN BEKNOWN, OF THOSE WHO WERE WOUNDED. A MEMBER OF COMPANY C. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1899, in the officeof the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C,by E. R. Brown. / /. 1 ^ DEDICATION To tl^e Honored Menqory of tY\e Mer) of all rariKs,living cirid dead, w>l)0 coiriposed tl^e T^erity-severitl)Reginqent of Indiana Volunteers, in tl^e War for t)\eUnion, 1861 to 1865—\vl)ose \\lqole-lqearted loyalty toCountry, extrerne devotion to duty, and subliiT\erepression of self and self interest, during tl\e periodof tl^eir service, alone rnade tY\e record of tlqe organi-zation conspicuous arnong otl^ers in tt\e briglqt galaxyo.f flrqerican History, and w>l)icl^ tY\e v^riter Kno^s ofand appreciates so rnucl) better tlqan l)e )\as been ableto set tl)ern fortlq—tlqis volunqe is rnost affectionately dedicated by THE AUTHOR.
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Aim AH AM LiNCLON, INTRODUCTORY. One afternoon in September of the memorable and fate-ful year of 1801, a line of men was formed in the State Fairgrounds at Indianapolis, then known as Camp Morton. Filingout of the gate, witli measured steps, timed to the music offife and drum, the column wound its way to Pennsylvaniastreet, down that to Washington street, thence west until,after various turns, it arrived at a point, then an open com-mon, on the bank of White river, ju-t above the old TerreHaute and Indianapolis railroad. Here a temporary campwas established. This was the virtual beginning of a relation between thesemen that was to continue for three yeirs, in fact on throughlife. There were then close to an even thousand of them, andabout one hundred others, all told, joined them at differentintervals afterwards. During the three years with which weare particularly concerned here, a fraction over one in sevenof those men were killed or mortally wounded in battle. Anaverage of almost

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