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27th Indiana at Gettysburg
The Gettysburg National Military Park allows organizations to adopt a unit monument to maintain the grounds around it at a level that government funding cannot attain. ICWRT adopted the position of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

We are honored to serve the memory of this distinguished unit, raised largely in south central Indiana with one company from Marion County. For an overview of the regiment's assignments, we recommend this link to Kristopher and Larry Liggett's Indiana and the Civil War website; for a regimental history, we recommend: Giants in the cornfield : the 27th Indiana Infantry, by Wilbur D. Jones, Jr.

The regimental monument at Gettysburg is in Spangler’s Meadow, about 300 yards east of Spangler’s Spring, at the eastern foot of Culp’s Hill. The Indiana State Monument is also in this meadow.

The regimental monument commemorates the action of early morning, July 3, 1863. The 27th Indiana was ordered to conduct a reconnaisance-in-force to see whether the Confederates were still occupying the lower slope of Culp’s Hill. The regiment advanced over 100 yards across the meadow towards the hill until the defenders’ fire forced it to retire.

The regiment began the engagement with 340 officers and men; 110 became casualties during the assault, including four color bearers killed and another four wounded.

A stone in the meadow marks the furthest point of the regiment’s advance, and another, in McAllister’s Woods, about 150 yards east of the regimental marker, marks the regiment’s left flank prior to the assault.

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