Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment is on the north side of Berry-Paxton Drive about 850 feet south of Stop 10 on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour. Left and right flank markers are a short distance from the main monument.
Colonel Silas Colgrove commanded the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Colgrove, originally from New York, was an attorney and state representative from Winchester, Indiana.
There are also monuments to the 27th Indiana Infantry in the Cornfield at Antietam and near Spangler’s Springs at Gettysburg.
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Attached to 3rd Brigade – 1st Division – 12th Corps |  |
Text from the front of the monument:
3rd Brigade, 1st Div., 12th Corps
Held this position from 7 p.m.
May 2nd to 9 a.m. May 3rd, 1863.
Present for duty 300
Killed 36, Wounded 114
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Mustered in Aug. 1861, Mustered out Sept. 1864
Total enrollment 1,101. Killed 172.
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Brown’s History 27th Indiana Infantry
Left flank marker for the regiment
Location of the monument to the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment at Chancellorsville
The monument to the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment is on the north side of Berry-Paxton Drive. It is about 0.3 mile east of the Stuart Drive intersection and about 850 feet south of the Stop 10 parking area on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour. (38°18’17.8″N 77°38’45.1″W)
See more of the history of the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.
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