27th Maine Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment


caption=Flag of Maine
dates=September 30 1862 to July 17 1863
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=None

The 27^th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a nine-month regiment, raised in York County, Maine and went into camp at Portland, Maine beginning on the 10th of September 1862; mustering in on September 30. The 27^th left Maine for Washington, D.C. on October 20. Attached to Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, to February 1863. And the 1st Brigade, Casey's Division, 22nd Corps, to April 1863. And the 1st Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, 22nd Corps, to July 1863. Its commander was Colonel Mark F. Wentworth.

ervice

Their duty at Arlington Heights, Virginia, was October 23 to December 12 1862, and at Hunting Creek until March 1863. They then moved to Chantilly, Virginia, on March 24, and served duty there until June 23. They were then ordered to the rear for muster out on June 26. When a request for volunteers was declined by the 25th Maine Infantry, the 27th was then asked, and over 300 men volunteered to remain beyond their service time in the defenses of Washington during the Gettysburg Campaign. After that, they left Washington for home on July 4. Then were mustered out on July 17 1863. The lack of an agreeable list of those who stayed behind in Washington resulted in all members of the Regiment controversially receiving the Medal of Honor. These medals were later purged by Congress in 1917.

Casualties

During their service, the regiment lost one officer and twenty-one enlisted men by disease. That gives a total of twenty-two casualties.

Notable members of the regiment

*William Googins
*Mark Wentworth

ee also

* [http://www.the27thmaine.com The 27th Maine]
*Medal of Honor
*Maine Units in the Civil War

Bibliography

Pullen, John J., "Shower of Stars", 1997, Stackpole Books

Stone, Lieut.Col. James M, "The History of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry", 1895, the Thurston Print,Portland,ME