27th Regiment, Alabama Infantry

27th Infantry Regiment was organized in December, 1861, at Fort Heimen, Tennessee. Its companies were recruited in Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Mobile, Madison, and Morgan counties. The unit was sent to Fort Henry ., then Fort Donelson . where it was captured on February 16, 1862. However, a number of men were sick in the hospital and escaped the surrender. These men were organized into two companies, joined a Mississippi regiment, and at the Battle of Perryville. lost 8 killed and 25 wounded. The main body of the regiment was exchanged, reunited with the other two companies at Port Hudson, and assigned to Beall's and Buford's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. The 27th was engaged at Champion's Hill . and Big Black River Bridge, served in the trenches at Jackson., and later moved with the army across the Pearl River. During the spring of 1864, it joined with the Army of Tennessee and, attached to General Scott's and Shelley's Brigade, participated in many conflicts from Resaca. to Bentonville.. Only a remnant surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Adolphus A. Hughes and James Jackson, Lieutenant Colonel Edward McAlexander, and Major R.G. Wright.

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