Record of Events  

  Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.    Part II, Vol. 20,  PP  603-637   Edited by Janet B. Hewett.  Assistant Editors Joycelyn Pinson and Julia H. Nichols.  Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilington, NC, 1995.  Record of Events for Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry, October 1862-June 1865.  

 October 3 - December 31, 1862 -- Stationed at Jackson, Tennessee

January 1 - April 15, 1863 --  Stationed at Camp Reed in Jackson, Tennessee

Mach - April, 1863 --  Stationed at Corinth, Mississippi
 

April 20, 1863 -- On this day we were ordered to Corinth from Jackson, whether we came by railroad, nothing of any importance transpiring on the route.
 

May - June, 1863 -  Stationed at Moscow, Tennessee

July - August 1863 -  Stationed on the march, Clarendon, Arkansas.

September - October, 1863 -- Stationed at camp opposite Little Rock, Arkansas.

November - December, 1863 -- Stationed at camp near Memphis, Tennessee.
 

November 16-20, 1863 --  Changed station from Little Rock, Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee. Transported by rail to Devall's Bluff, distance forty-four miles.  [Moved] thence to Memphis by water, distance 375 miles.

 
 January - February, 1864 -- Stationed at camp near Canton, Mississippi

March - April, 1864 -- Stationed at Alexandria, Louisiana

May - June, 1864 -- Stationed near La Grange, Tennessee.

July - August, 1864 -- Stationed at Memphis, Tennessee.

September - October, 1864 -- Stationed at Pleasant hill, Missouri.
 

September 4 - October 31, 1864 -- This company embarked with the regiment at Memphis for Cairo; thence to Jefferson Barracks, from there by rail to Mineral Point, returning to Jefferson Barracks.  Marched via Jefferson City, striking the line of Kansas at [Little] Santa Fe, returning across the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri; thence returning to Saint Louis.
 

November - December 1864 --  Stationed in the field, Tennessee.
 

November 25 - 28, 1864 --  This company moved with the regiment from Saint Louis by water to Cairo, Illinois, arriving November 28.

December 1 - 16, 1864 --  From thence to Nashville, arriving December 1;  took part in the battle of Nashville, state of Tennessee December 15 and 16, 1864.

December 17, 1864 -- Marched from battlefield in pursuit of Hood's retreating Army via Franklin, Columbia, Pulaski, etc., to Clifton on Tennessee River.
 

January - February, 1865 --  Stationed near New Orleans, Louisiana
 

January 2 - 5, 1865 --  Arrived at Clifton; moved from thence by water January 5 to Eastport.

February 9 - 21, 1864 -- Commenced fortifying; moved by water from Eastport February 9 to New Orleans; arrived February 21, 1865.
 

March - April 1865 --  Stationed at Montgomery, Alabama.
 

April 9, 1865 --  This company was with the regiment in the movement on Fort Blakely and participated in the engagement which took place, resulting in the capitulation of that stronghold with a large amount of war material, prisoners, etc.
 

May - June, 1865 --  Stationed in the field near Montgomery, Alabama
 

April 27 - June 30, 1865 -- This company has been stationed, since the date of last muster, with the regiment near Montgomery doing picket and guard duty since their arrival at this point from Blakely, Alabama.

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