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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 10, 2007
Caption: Position of the 27th Indiana
Additional Description: The left most red arrow indicates the location of the left flank marker stone. The center red arrow points to the Regimental marker. The right side arrow points to the right flank marker stone. Colonel Silas Colgrove led the 27th Indiana into the battle. As units around him collapsed, he rounded up stragglers and formed them around his unit, these augmenters included two cannon. During the fighting, he directed his son, who was the regiment's major, "Here boy, you run the regiment while I run this here gun!" The arrows here give an impression of the narrow confines in which units fought during the Civil War. Imagine similar regiments flanking both sides - thousands of men packed into such narrow spaces contributed to the high casualty rates.
Submitted: November 18, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p10472
File Size: 0.452 Megabytes

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