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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-
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 27th regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: (Monticello, Ind.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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urned up to him, as he came out on the platform and de-scended the stepSj as blank as if he had been an industriousbeggar, asking for ahns. When he approached a young man,who had been a former neighbor, with somewhat effusivegreetings, surely pardonable under the circumstances, theyoung man either did not, or afTected not, to know him, andcould not be brought to a very vivid recollection of him. Ashe walked out to his home, in tlie country, another formerneighbor rode along with him on horseback. The soldier hadbeen sick and was obliged to sit down frequently to rest, butthe man did not ofier to let him ritle. When he arrived at 544 HISTORY OF THE home, though his dear old father and mother opened widetheirarms, in a fond, passionate welcome, and shed copioustears of joy over his return, an uncle, who happened to bepresent, did not as much as offer to shake hands with him.He had been on the wrong side in the war to suit the uncle.This one instance may not be a good illustration of the
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A Typical Indiana Fireside Before the War. The winds of heaven never fanned,The searching sunlight never spanned,The borders of a better landThan our own Indiana. end, as what has been written heretofore is doubtless animperfect portrayal of the beginning and middle, of the serv-ice and experience of the men of the Twenty-seventh. Thisis taken from real life, however, and like the balance, has themerit, at least, of not being overdrawn. It is not really within the scope of this narrative as first TWENTYSEVENTir INDIANA. 545 decided upon to pursue the history of these men further. Itseems almost necessary, however, to account for those leftbehind, when the term of service of the regiment properexpired. Most of the commissioned officers were musteredout, by order, on November 4, 1864. One hundred and twenty-nine of the enlisted men hadre-enlisted as veterans while the regiment was at Tullahoma.All of those still living were transferred to the SeventiethIndiana, as well as all recruits w

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