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Title: The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Edmund Randolph, 1845-
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 27th regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: (Monticello, Ind.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, with three superb armycorps, aggregating almost 40,000 men (the Fifth Corps hav-ing come up by another road), barely two brigades of theenemy, not over 8,000 men, were between us and the vicinityof Fredericksburg. An advance that afternoon would havefound them almost without entrenchments. To assert that wemight not have brushed them away and planted ourselves in *This bridge was built upon the plans ami under the supLTvisionof Captain Bloss, of the Twenty-seventh, who at this time was in com-mand of the pioneers, a detail whose duty it was to keep in advance ofthe main column and prefiare the way for it. 812 HISTORY OF THE the open country above Fredericksbur*^, opening direct com-munication with that part of our army opposite that point, isto assert that we had in us none of the qualities of good soldiers.It is a curious fact, but before we had been at the pointwhere we first halted a half hour, a rum jr was current amongus that the impending battle would be fought on that ground.
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X c < ^ c^ It must have been a random guess by some one, though correct.General Hooker had not then reached Chancellorsville him-self. If it w^as already his plan, even tentatively, to deliverbattle at that point, he never admitted it afterwards. TWENTY-SEAEXTIi IXDIAXA. 313 The next morning, May 1st, we were called into line andHookers famous order, having reference mainly to what theEleventh and Twelfth Corps had then accomplished, butalmost boasting in advance as to what he was going to do,was read to us. Bands played, the troops cheered, and therewas enthusiasm generally. Of course, it made us feel veryproud to have our own little corps mentioned so flattering))-,all the more as the Twenty-seventh had been so prominentlyidentified with its movements. The shocking blasphemywhich Hooker is said to have uttered at this time, namely,that even God Almighty could not prevent him from destroy-ing the rebel army, was not in general circulation among themen. About eleven oclock A. M., o

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