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 .. . ns with thosetwo illustrious armies—the Army of the Potomac and theArmy of the Cumberland. It was the onlv regiment fromIndiana that was favored with that distinction. All of the foregoing reorganizations and changes grewout of another transaction of gieat import. That was the pro-motion of General Grant to the command of all of the armiesof the
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 .. . ns with thosetwo illustrious armies—the Army of the Potomac and theArmy of the Cumberland. It was the onlv regiment fromIndiana that was favored with that distinction. All of the foregoing reorganizations and changes grewout of another transaction of gieat import. That was the pro-motion of General Grant to the command of all of the armiesof the United States, and of General Sherman to succeed himas commander of the Military Division of the latter embraced all of the Western armies. Nothing everoccurred in the career of the Twenty seventh that had. in all 462 HISTORY OF THE respects, as satisfactory an outcome, and that through all theyears, has so comforted and rewarded the survivors of the regi-ment for their toils and sacrifices, as the fact that they servedwith, and became thus historically related to, this rare militarygenius and incomparable army comrade. To have blackedofficers shoes or driven a mule team under Sherman was gloryenough for an ordinary Gen. W. T. Shehmax. (From a war time photograph.) Dr. Woollen tells of a pood hit, sprung iiijon him during tliis [leriod,at the expense of his profession. While the Twenty-seventh was at Tul-lahoma, the Doctor was appointed surgeon-in-charge of a large generalhospital at Murfreesboro. This was a high compliment to the Doctor, hisage considered, but that has nothing to do with the story. . one of thesteps in securing discipline in the hospital and ridding it of numerousspecies of disorder and incompetency, with their resulting filth and con-tagion, among which was hospital gangrene, the Doctor early establisheda system of rigid weekly inspections, according to Army Regulations. Atthe first inspection he found much that comfirmed him a
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