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U. S. Civil War
Twenty Seventh Regiment Infantry
Colonel Wright, its commander, received two wounds, one by a shell, the other by a rifle ball in the shoulder, disabling him from command.
The casualties of the month of July were: Killed, 24; wounded, 92; missing, 27; total, 143. The regiment occupied a portion of the entrenchments in front of Petersburg until the 19th of August, when it marched to the Wel-don railroad. On the 19th and 20th it participated in the battles fought near that road. Its loss in these two engagements was 9 killed, 8 wounded, and 37 missing, Lieutenant Mason Vosper being among the killed of the 19th.
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