COMPANY G, TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT

. This company was composed of men from different parts of Mercer county and other counties, but perhaps the largest number was from the vicinity of New Boston. The company was organized August 23, 1861,. with Henry R. Southward as captain, Simeon Sheldon, of New Boston, as first lieutenant, and Robert P. Lytle, of New Boston, as second lieutenant. Southward served to the end of his term of enlistment, Sheldon was promoted to adjutant, and held the office a few months, and Lytle was promoted to captain of company B. George R. Beardsley succeeded Lytle, but soon resigned, and was succeeded by Hugh M. Love, of Swedonia, who afterward became first lieutenant and was killed in battle November 25, 1863.

The regiment was organized at Camp Butler, with seven companies, August 10, 1861, and at once ordered to Jacksonville as a part of John A. McClernand's brigade. About a month later the regiment went to Cairo, where it was joined by three other companies, making the regiment complete. Two months later (November 7) the regiment was engaged, under Gen. MeClernand, at Belmont, and bore a prominent part and lost heavily.

March 14, 1862, it, with other regiments, was formed into what was known as the Mississippi flotilla, and started down that river and was at the famous , siege of Island No. 10, and was the first to land. After this the regiment was engaged at the siege of Corinth and battle of Farmington, guarding railroads, and finally, .after many and long marches, arrived at Nashville September 12, 1862. It was in the battle of Stone River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, and numerous other engagements.

April, 1864, the regiment was ordered to join the Atlanta cam­paign, in which it was engaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resacca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree creek, and in the skirmishes around Atlanta. After this (August 25) the regiment was mustered out at Springfield, Illinois.

The veterans of the regiment generally went into the ninth regi­ ment. During the term of service the regiment lost in killed, or died of wounds or disease, 182, of whom twenty-four were from Mercer county.

 

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