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HISTORY of JEROME TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY, OHIO
Curry, W. L. : Columbus, Ohio: Press of the E. T. Miller Co.
1913

27TH REGIMENT, UNITED COLORED INFANTRY.
- THREE YEARS' SERVICE -
pg. 159

     This regiment was organized at Camp Delaware, Ohio, from January 16th to August 6th, 1864, to serve three years.  Shortly after being mustered into the service of the United States the regiment was ordered to Camp Casey, Washington, D. C, where it was stationed awhile, doing garrison duty.  Thence the regiment went to City Point and Petersburg, Va., it being at the latter place that it distinguished itself for unsurpassed gallantry and good conduct upon the battlefield.  The bravery of this regiment was also displayed at Chapin's Farm and at Weldon Railroad.
     The regiment was sent down into North Carolina, where it was engaged a part of the time in doing garrison duty, and the other part of the time in taking part in the operations, including the skirmishes in and around Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Goldsboro and Raleigh. It did heroic service, won the confidence and approval of its superior officers, and after as honorable service as any of the regiments, it was mustered out of the U. S. service September 21st, 1865, at Smithville, N. C.  The Roll of Honor of this regiment will show eighteen killed in action and one hundred and forty-nine died in hospital of disease or wounds received in battle.
     Joseph Butcher of Jerome Township served in this regiment with nine other soldiers who enlisted in Union County. 
     Wherever colored troops were engaged in battle during the Civil War they acquitted themselves in a manner which

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fully justified the Government in enlisting their services.  The first colored regiment organized during the war was recruited in New Orleans, was mustered into the service September 27th, 1862, and was known as the First Louisiana Native Guard.  The first colored regiment organized in Northern States was the 54th Massachusetts, recruited in the spring of 1863.
     The total number of colored troops enlisted during the Civil War was 178,975, and the losses by death were 36,847.

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