Unit

Confederate Regiment

27th North Carolina Infantry

Organized: New Bern, NC; mustered in 6/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Appomattox Courthouse, VA 4/9/1865

Statistics for Maryland Campaign
  Initial Strength: 325
  Killed in Action (KIA): 31
  Wounded (WIA): 168
  Losses, % of Initial Strength: 61.2%

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #360: Walker's Division, Longstreet's Command - 15 Sep, 6 PM to 18 Sep, 9 PM
   Tablet #367: Manning's Brigade, Walker's Division - 16 Sep, 3 PM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #388: Manning's Brigade, Walker's Division - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 11 AM
   Tablet #374: Walker's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Walker's Division
  Brigade - Walker's Brigade

History of the Unit:
Formed originally as the 9th Regiment, it was reorganized and renamed the 27th in September 1861. It had been recruited from Orange, Guilford, Wayne, Pitt, Lenoir, Perquimans, and Jones counties., North Carolina.

In the Antietam Campaign:
Lt James A Graham, Co. G of the 27th, said of the Battle: "The day had been a long one, but the evening seemed longer; the sun seemed almost to go backwards, and it appeared as if night would never come."

More on the Web:
See a fine article about the 27th at Sharpsburg from Dean Harry of Company D (reenacted); and more about Company B and the rest of the Regiment throughout the War from the excellent Guilford Greys website.

References, Sources, and other Notes:
Source: Crute, Joseph H. Jr., Units of the Confederate States Army, Midlothian (VA) : Derwent Books, 1987; and
Wagstaff, H. M., editor, The James A Graham Papers, Chapel Hill (NC): The University of North Carolina Press, 1928.

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