Company G
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 3, 1862 - January 1, 1863 -- Stationed at Jackson, Tennessee
- October 10 -13, 1862 -- Received marching orders for Saint Paul, Minnesota. Arrived there on October 13, 1962.
- October 15, 1862 -- Left by orders of Major-General [John] Pope for Mille Lacks, Minnesota to attend the regiment of the Chippewa Indians. October 15.
- October 26-November 3, 1862 -- Left Mille Lacks for Fort Snelling. Arrived there November 3.
- November 8-13, 1862 -- Received orders to go to Cairo, Illinois. Arrived there by November 13 by railroad from Prairie du Chien.
- November 20-22, 1862-- Left for Memphis. Arrived there November 22.
- December 13, 1862 -- Started from Memphis in General [Jacob Gartner] Lauman's Division, General Sherman's Corps d'Armie.
- December 14, 1862 -- Received orders at Hurricane Creek to report to Colonel [John] Van Deusen' Du Bois, commanding, at Waterford, Mississippi. Was sent to the Tallahatchie to guard railroad bridges.
- December 21, 1862 -- Left there for Holly Springs.
- December 24, 1862 -- Started from Holly Springs for camp near the Tallahatchie.
January 1- April 15, 1863 -- Stationed at Jackson, Tennessee
March - April 1863 -- Stationed at Corinth, Mississippi
May - June, 1863 -- Stationed at Moscow.
July - August, 1863 - Stationed at Clarendon, Arkansas
September - October, 1863 -- Stationed at Little Rock, Arkansas
November - December, 1863 -- Stationed at Memphis, Tennessee
- [For record of events, see Company E]
January - February 1864 -- Stationed at Canton, Mississippi
March - April 1864 -- Stationed at Alexandria, Louisiana
- [For record of events, see Company D]
May - June, 1864 -- Stationed at La Grange, Tennessee
- May 2, 1864 -- Marched from Alexandria, Louisiana to Bayou Lamourie.
- May 5, 1864 -- Skirmishing by the regiment.
- May 13-17, 1864 -- Marched for Simsport, arrived May 17.
- May 18, 1864 -- Engaged in the battle of Old Oak, Louisiana.
- May 19-20, 1864 -- Marched for the mouth of Red River, arrived May 20.
- May 22, 1864 -- Embarked on transports for Vicksburg, Mississippi, where we arrived -----.
- June 5-6, 1864 -- Embarked on transports for Memphis. Disembarked at Sunnyside [Landing] June 6, 1864. Marched ten miles to Ditch Bayou. Engaged [John Sappington] Marmaduke's force and drove them from the field.
- June 7, 1864 -- Camped at Lake Village.
- June 10, 1864 -- Joined transports at Columbia and reembarked for Memphis, where we arrived June 10, 1864.
- June 24, 1864 -- Left Memphis on cars for Moscow, Tennessee
- June 27, 1864 -- Marched from Moscow to La Grange, Tennessee.
July - August, 1864 -- Stationed at Memphis, Tennessee
- July 5, 1864 -- Left La Grange, Tennessee.
- July 13, 1864 -- The enemy attacked our wagon train in the rear, but was repulsed with heavy loss.
- July 14, 1864 -- Battle near Tupelo, Mississippi. The enemy was driven from the field with severe loss. In the night [there was] another attack, in which he was again repulsed.
- July 15, 1864 -- Left Tupelo, Mississippi for Memphis, Tennessee. Attacked by the enemy in our rear and repulsed the same. Battle of Old Town Creek in which he was again defeated.
- July 25, 1864 -- Arrived at Memphis, Tennessee
- August 4, 1864 -- Left Memphis, Tennessee. Arrived at Holly Springs, Mississippi.
- August 17, 1864 -- Left Holly Springs, Mississippi.
- August 22, 1864 -- Left Oxford, Mississippi for Memphis, Tennessee, not finding the enemy.
September - October, 1864 -- Stationed at Pleasant Hill, Missouri
- [For record of events, see Regiment.]
November - December, 1864 -- Station not stated.
- November 1-18, 1864 -- Marched from Lone Jack, Missouri via Lexington and Glasgow to Saint Louis, Missouri. Arrived November 18.
- November 24, 1864 -- Embarked on transports for Nashville, Tennessee.
- December 11, 1864 --- Disembarked at Nashville, Tennessee and immediately constructed works for the defense of Nashville.
- December 15-16, 1864 -- Was engaged in battle at Nashville. Followed in pursuit of Howell's Rebels. Went as far as Pulaski, Tennessee and diverged towards Clifton, Tennessee.
January - February 1865 -- Stationed at Chalmette, Louisiana
- January 2. 1965 --Reached Clifton, Tennessee
- January 5-7, 1865 -- Embarked on steamer Havana and arrived at Eastport, Mississippi January 7.
- January 8-February 8, 1865 -- Captain [Charles A.] Slocum went one mile from camp and was taken prisoner by the enemy. On January 1, he escaped from them and returned to duty with his company at Eastport, Mississippi.
- February 9-21, 1865 -- Embarked on steamer Tarascon for New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrived February 21.
March - April 1865 -- Stationed at Montgomery, Alabama.
- March 7-8, 1865 -- Left New Orleans, where last mustered and proceed to Dauphin Island on steamship Empire City, where we landed March 8, 1865.
- March 20, 1865 -- Left Dauphin Island on transports and landed at Donnelley's Ferry, Fish River, Arkansas (sic) the same day.
- March 25 - April 3, 1865 - Left Fish River and marched to Fort Blakely, where we arrived April 3.
- April 9, 1865 -- Participated in the assault and capture of Blakely.
- April 13-27, 1865 -- Left Blakely for Montgomery and arrived at the later place April 27, 1865. Distance marched, since last mustered, 190 miles.
May - June, 1865 -- Stationed at Montgomery, Alabama.