Twenty-seventh North Carolina Infantry Regiment

27th Infantry Regiment was formed at New Bern, North Carolina, in June 1861 as the 9th Regiment. The unit reorganized in September as the 17th and its designation was later changed to the 27th. Its soldiers were recruited in Orange, Guilford, Jackson (few from Jackson County) Wayne, Pitt, Lenoir, Perquimans, and Jones counties. It was assigned to General R. Ransom's, J. G. Walker's, and Cooke's Brigade. After fighting at New Bern, the 27th saw action at Harpers Ferry, the Seven Days Battles, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. During the spring and summer of 1863, it served in North Carolina, South Carolina, and in the Richmond area. The unit continued the fight at Bristoe Station. It fought in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor battles, and later endured the hardships of the Petersburg siege south of the James River. It also engaged at Reams Station, Hatchers Run and ended the war at Appomattox. It had 6 wounded at Malvern Hill, lost sixty-three percent of the 325 engaged at Sharpsburg, and suffered 2 killed and 13 wounded at Fredericksburg. Seventy percent of the 416 at Bristoe were disabled, and when the regiment surrendered it had 9 officers and 103 men. The field officers were Colonels John R. Cooke, J. A. Gilmer, Jr., George B. Singeltary, John Sloan, and George F. Whitfield; Lieutenant Colonels R. W. Singeltary, Thomas C. Singeltary, and Joseph C. Webb; and Major Calvin Herring.

Sources: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865; National Park Service: American Civil War; National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors System; Weymouth T. Jordan and Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865; and D. H. Hill, Confederate Military History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In The Civil War, 1861-1865.