The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-10-10
REUNION OF THE OHIO BRIGADE

The mem berS OF the famous : ONO
Brigade" which did such splendid work
in the war against secession, held re-
union at Columbus, on the 4th of the
present month The following able ad-
dress was delivered by Gen. NJ. Churchill,
in response to the toast, The Twenty
seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:
The mention of the Twenty tn
Ohio Infantry revives memories very dear
to me. Itwls my fortune to share the tri-
ais and dangers of this regiment for over
three years, and to command it for eight
months, during part of its most event
full service, and it is with recollections
and emotions born only of the march,
bivouac and the baptism of battle, that
shall attempt to speak of the organization
now.
In one particular my task is easy; upon
the regiments record, of nearly four
years service in seven different Southern
States, there rests no stain. Individual
cases of unsodierly conduct there were.
but in the hour of supreme trial the Or
ganization never faltered, but would go
unhinchingly into the very jaws OF death,
when ordered to do so.
In view of the others who are to speak
on this occasion, my time will permit but
the barest outline of the services of the
regiment; many minor engagements in
which it participated can not be even
mentioned.
The Twenty-seventh was the sixth
three years regiment, organized as such,
in Ohio.* 1t was raised before the dis
trict system was adopted by the State;
the enlistments were made mostly in
Tn1u dol
rated as the Ohio river and Lake Erie.
The officers and men came together at
Camp Chase, comparatively strangers to
each other. In consequence the regi
ment began its service free from the
local iealousies often following those
raised in one locality
The organization was perfected August
16, 1861; its first field officers were John
q w. Fuller, Colonel; H G Kennett Lieu
tenant Colonel, and z. S Spalding, Ma
jor. The regiments first service was in
Missouri, going to St. Louis August 20
1861.
ITS SERVICE IN MISSOURI
MAY be stated as follows: 1t marched
over the great State lengthwise, crosswise
and diagonally, emitting mention of cir
cular movements. In September, 1856
it crossed the State from St. Louis to
Jefferson City, attempting by the way to
reinforce Colonel Mulligan, then beseged
in Lexington. In October marched south
west to Springfield and in November
north to Sedalia, and in February to St.
Louis This last march begun in snow
and ice, and after the snow disappeared
was prosecuted over roads frozen hard
enough each morning to bear the artil-
lery, and so thawed out in the afternoon
20 hot hos
were good seasoning for the service which
came afterward.
The regiment reached s.. Louis Feb
ruary 20, 1862 moved by boat to Com
merce, marched thence to New Madrid,
Missouri and was engaged in all the bat
ties and sl<irmishes there till the capture
of that place by our troops In one ac
ton there a cannon ball carried away the
right leg of each of three men marching z
in one file of the Twenty seventh.
The regiment then crossed the Missis
sippi participated in the capture OF Island
Ten and returned to New Madrid, going
thence, in April, with other troops, down
the river to Fort Pillow.
This completed the regiments service
in Missouri. 1t marched over one thou
sand miles in that State, in less than
eight months The recollection OF those
long, hard marches, even at this distance
of time, gives one a weariness OF the legs
The river being too high for operations
at Fort Pillow, the entire command re
turned going up the Tennessee river and
becoming the left wing of Halleck's army
under Pope, operating against Corinth
Mississippi. The regiment participated
in the engagements resulting in the cap
:ure of that place in the spring Of 1862
In September and October following was
engaged in the
BATTLES OF IUKA AND CORINTH.
The latter was fought sixteen years ago
to-day. The Twenty seventh was con
spicuously engaged, losing in that action
in killed and wounded, seventy men and
officers. The behavior OF the regiment
in this battle was so gallant as to receive
the thanks Of General Rosecrans on the
field, and elicit from him special and hon
orable mention in his official report to
General Grant
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICE.
In November following, the twenty
seventh formed a part OF the army OF
aCompany E. OF the Twent y-sevcn h, was the
first three-yeaIs company that enlisted III jack