Company A
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.
The companies kept records of activities, including how far they traveled (and by what method i.e. marched, by train, by steamer). Some Companies kept more extensive Records of Events than others. Even though there is very little mention of specific soldiers, it gives you a pretty good idea of what they were doing during a specific time period.
To see a record of events associated with a particular company, click on the company letter above. NOTE: be sure to also check out the Record of Events for the Staff and the Regiment. It gives pretty extensive information about the 27th Iowa in general.
October 30, 1862 - February 1863 -- Stationed at Jackson, Tennessee
April 15, 1863 -- Stationed at Camp Reed, Jackson, Tennessee
March - April, 1863 -- Stationed at Corinth, Mississipi
May - June 1863 -- Stationed at Moscow, Tennessee
August 31, 1863 -- Stationed at Clarendon, Arkansas
September - October 1863 -- Stationed at Little Rock, state of Arkansas
November - December 1863 -- Stationed at Memphis, Tennessee
- November 16, 1863 -- The company left Little Rock and traveled by railroad to Devall's Bluff, then via White and Mississippi Rivers to Memphis.
- November 26, 1863 -- The company arrived at Memphis.
January - February 1864 -- Stationed at Canton, Missssippi
March - April 1864 -- Stationed at Alexandria, Louisiana
May - June 1864 -- Stationed at La Grange, Tennessee
- May 14 - 21, 1864 -- Marched from Alexandria. Since last muster the company has been engaged in two battles. The first was at Old Oak, Louisiana, May 18, 1864.
- May 24, 1864 -- Came to Vicksburg on transports, arriving there May 24.
- June 4, 1864 -- Went from Vicksburg on transports.
- June 6, 1864 -- Battle at Ditch Bayou, Arkansas
- June 10-24, 1864 -- Arrived at Memphis; went from Memphis June 24, 1864 on cars to Moscow.
- June 27, 1864 -- Marched from Moscow and arrived at La Grange.
July - August, 1864 -- Stationed at Memphis, Tennessee
September - October 1864 -- Stationed in the field, Missouri.
- September 7, 1864 -- The company together with the regiment left Memphis and took transportation to Cairo, Illinois, where it arrived on September 7, 1864.
- September 14, 1864 -- Left Cairo for Sulphur Springs, Missouri, arriving at Sulphur Springs on September 16, 1864.
- September 26-28, 1864 -- Was sent out to Mineral Point. Returned to Jefferson Barracks, September 28, 1864.
- October 3-31, 1864 -- Left Jefferson Barrack on a tramp (after Price), through the state of Missouri and [illigible] and in the field of the west border of the state October 31, 1864.
November - December 1864 -- Stationed in the field in Tennessee
January - February 1865 -- Stationed at Chalmette
- December 31, 1864 -- The company was mustered in the field near Pulaski, Tennessee while in pursuit of General Hood's forces.
- January 7, 1865 -- It then marched to Clifton on the Tennessee River. At this point it took transports to Eastport, Mississippi, where it arrived.
- February 9-21, 1865 -- It remained at Eastport until February 9, when it took transport for New Orleans, where it arrived on February 21, 1865.
March - April 1865 -- Stationed at Montgomery, Alabama
- February 28, 1865 -- The company was mustered for pay at Camp Chalmette, Louisiana.
- March 7-9, 1865 -- It took transportation at New Orleans and passed down the Mississippi River; thence across the Gulf to Dauphin Island, where it landed on the morning of March 9, 1865.
- March 20, 1865 -- It remained in camp until March 20, when it again took transportation and crossed Mobile Bay to Fish River; passed up the river a short distance and disembarked the same day.
- March 25-April 3, 1865 -- It marched for Spanish Fort, where it remained until April 3, when it was marched to the front of Fort Blakely and commenced the siege of that place at once with its division.
- April 9, 1865 -- It was in the siege until April 9, when it together with its regiment charged up on the enemy works in their front, capturing the work and a number of prisoners.
- April 13-27, 1865 -- It marched for Montgomery, where it arrived April 27, 1865.
May - June, 1865 -- Stationed at Montgomery, Alabama
- April 30-June 30, 1865 -- Mustered for pay at Montgomery. We remained in camp at Montgomery till the present time.