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  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

  Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.

  The three footnotes in the Catalogues (Chapters IX to XII) have
  multiple anchors denoted by [A], [B] and [C]. These footnotes have
  been left at the end of each relevant section, as in the original
  text. The footnotes are listed here for easy reference:
    [A] Taken prisoner at Fredericksburg.
    [B] Taken prisoner at Chancellorsville.
    [C] Taken prisoner at Gettysburg.

  Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.




  THE

  “TWENTY-SEVENTH.”

  _A REGIMENTAL HISTORY._


  BY
  WINTHROP D. SHELDON, A.M.,
  LATE LIEUTENANT COMPANY H.


  [Illustration: (Publisher colophon)]


  NEW-HAVEN:
  MORRIS & BENHAM.

  1866.




TO THE

OFFICERS AND PRIVATE SOLDIERS

OF THE

TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT CONN.