The infantry, the infantry, with dirt behind their ears...they can whup their weight in wildcats and drink their weight in beers...the cavalry, artillery, and even the engineers...they'll never catch the infantry, not in a hundred thousand years!
NOTICE I am looking for photos of 27th KY veterans to add to this page. I will give credit to whomever provides them.
Major General William Thomas "Old Pap" Ward
raised the 27th Kentucky and commissioned its officers in the name of
President Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army. His son, John H. Ward, commanded the 27th Kentucky (photo by Mathew Brady)
Colonel John H. Ward
(Photo provided by Vaughn Branom, descendent of General Ward.)
Color Sergeant John DeFevers holds the national colors of the 27th Kentucky
Regiment. DeFevers saved the colors from advancing Rebels at the siege of
Knoxville, September 1863 by swimming the Tennessee River, flag in hand.
Muster Roster
27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Staff
Colonels Commanding: Charles D. Pennebaker, John H. Ward
Lieutenant Colonel: John H. Ward
Majors: John Carlisle, Samuel J. Coyne, Alexander Magruder
Adjutants: Daniel S. Waggener, James B. Speed
Quartermaster: Thomas R. McBeath
Surgeon: Robert L. Heston
Assistant Surgeons: Thomas Sanders, Robert Dinwiddie
Chaplain: Robert S. Gardner
Sergeants Major: Benjamin F. Pumphrey, John W. Jennings, William H. H. Taylor
Quartermaster Sergeant: Willard Dewey
Comissary Sergeants: John F. Givan, David Gibson
Hospital Stewards: Galt W. Booth, Rezin D. Overstreet
Privates John A. and James R. O'Brien of Company A.
Photo courtesy of descendant Margie Richards. Over the years this photo has faded and some artistic member of the family has tried to restore it with limited success.
Thomas Gollady, Wagoner of Co B and
Sgt John Gollady of Co A.
Thomas' middle name is actually
Benton and should be listed as
Thomas B. Gollady. Photo and information
courtesy of their kinsman Bill Golladay.
Co A, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: Anderson Gray, William W. Brady
1st Lieutenants: Thomas R. McBeath, Benjamin W. Cleaver
2nd Lieutenant: Robert V. Sands
Sergeants: George A. Pearl, William C. McGrew, Joseph Ashley, Jeptha V. Nichols, John P. Golladay, Sylvester Milner, James W. Hackley, James R. Dunn, John W. Parrish
Corporals: Samuel Brunk, James W. Sands, John W. Stone, Liggin W. Kinkead, Franklin Montgomery, Isaac Armstrong, Moses Stone, Andrew J. Saleman, Clelland Beatty, James H. Gray
Wagoner: Henry P. Beatty
Privates: Miles Ashley, Squire Ashely, Jefferson G. Baker, James Burris, Albert Brunk, Edmund C. Baker, Francis A. Burkhead, John W. Burkhead, Edmund S. Bryan, Benjamin Cahill, William S. Carnes, Francis M. Cook, Andrew J. Cook, Charles A. Clark, James Carter, Eli Carter, Otis Coates, John R. Durbin, Richard Duvall, John M. Duvall, Edmund Decker, William H. Decker, John Drury, James M. Dewitt, Josiah Dennison, Uriah P. Fulkerson, William Fraise, John R. Fraise, James Ford, Isaac Fulkerson, William M. Fulkerson, John W. Gray, Joseph Gibson, Alexander Gaither, Wiley Gaither, James H. Grayson, George W. Henderson, James J. Harris, Riley Hatfield, William W. Hornback, Lewis Hays, William Hackitt, John U. Higdon, John T. Higdon, William C. Henderson, David Horn, Elijah Kelly, Solomon Kessinger, Josiah Kessinger, John M. Litsey, James Lock, William Minton, Alexander Minton, Anderson Minton, John Mudd, Henry P. Minton, William C. Miller, Theodore A. McClure, William B. Nichols, James H. Nichols, C. A. Nichols, William D. Nichols, Patrick O'Shain, George Oller, James R. O'Brien, John A. O'Brien, William F. O'Conner, George H. Pearl, Buckner P. Pool, William Parker, James H. Ray, William Scott, John W. Sutton, Harrison Slinker, William Sanders, Charles Scott, George T. Thomasson, Ira C. Winchel, William Whoberry*, Ansel Whoberry*, Isaac Willis, Barton Witten, Hiram Witten
*Soldiers' actual names are William Whobrey and Ansel Whobrey, per William's great granddaugher, Linda Whobrey Rohman.
Private Elisha H. Brumfield
Note his "GAR" Membership Badge
Photo courtesy USAMHI
Two brothers, Corporal Adam Smith and Private Jacob Smith
Photos courtesy descendant Alan Bell.
Company B, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: Lucian K. Cox, Thomas S. Hiner, Alanson M. Pulliam
1st Lieutenant: Aaron Norton
2nd Lieutenant: Obediah Bassham
Sergeants: William D. Given, Samuel H. Payne, Benjamin Macy, Thomas Nevitt, Isaac J. Lewis, John A. Blanford, Charles L. Weatherford, John F. Givan, Barkstell S. Meador
Corporals: John F. Stinnett, Micajah H. Robins, Walter Jarboe, Adam Smith, Isaiah Dalton, Samuel Gilbert, Thomas H. Payne, John W. Aldridge, Sanford P. Milner
Wagoner: Thomas P. Golladay.
Privates: Simeon B. Armes, William Mc. Armes, Daniel Armes, Micajah Armes, Alfred Allen, Samuel Aldridge, Henry S. Aldridge, Elisha H. Brumfield, Minoah S. Basham, Elijah C. Basham, Campbell Brown, William Bennington, John Burnett, Charles W. Chancellor, John R. Cravens, William A. Crews, Plus A. Coomes, Anslem Davidson, Thomas Dowell, William Farmer, William S. Galloway, Gregory Galloway, Jesse B. Gaddis, Daniel B. Huffines, Philo Huffines, John J. Hall, William P. Hall, William H. Hall, John H. Kennedy, William A. Lampton, Augustin Lewis, Peter Lasley, Bartlett Milam, Obediah H. Milam, William Meador, John McNulty, Aaron Norton, Jeremiah M. Norton, John Nevitt, John J. Nevitt, Samuel M. Priest, William E. Priest, George C. Paul, Lloyd W. Payne, Joel E. Payne, Thomas F. Robins, George Robertson, William O. Richardson, Jacob Smith, John E. Sample, William F. Stillwell, John M. Seeley, James Tucker, Littleberry Tate, John R. Tucker, Elijah B. Tucker, John H. Tabling, Allen Tucker, Richard S. Thompson, Clinton D. Wale, John C. Wheatley.
Company C, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captain: Andrew J. Bailey
1st Lieutenants: John W. McWarter, James W. Defevers
2nd Lieutenants: Edmund R. Goode, James A. Figgett
Sergeants: Silas L. Vance, Robert J. Stayton, George W. Lyons, John T. Defevers, Christopher Wilkinson, Charles H. Monday, William T. Weatherington, William R. Powell, Richard M. Simpson
Corporals: Elijah T. Stayton, William H. Mills, James A. Gardner, Bazel Weatherington, Robert A. Goode, James H. Monday, Alexander C. Martin, John C. Cundiff, Mathew Weatherington, James H. Weatherington
Wagoner: Lewis Davis
Privates: Levi Bryant, David Bryant, Junius C. Bryant, George B. Barlow, James Bottoms, Jacob Bell, Felix Brooks, James Brown, Thompson Blankenship, James H. Clemmons, Burnett, H. Chism, John W. Coffey, Christopher Coffey, Walker Cox, Nathaniel Davis, Isaac F. Dennison, William H. Dennison, William Devour, George W. Earles, George W. Goode, John Griffin, Elijah Gilpin, David Harvey, Jesse Harvey, Nimrod Hatfield, Bernard M. Harben, William Hovons [Hovins?], James M. Hubbard, James Hovins, Urban G. Hendrickson, Andrew Jacobs, James Jacobs, Alpha Jacobs, John W. Jones, James W. Jones, James W. Lancaster, George W. Marple, William O. Mann, Benjamin Miles, Stephen C. Puckett, George Rogers, John Ross, Isaac Roten, George A. Sanders, Joshua B. Tucker, Spotswood Tucker, William H. Thompson, Elza [Eliza?] Weatherington, Thomas Weatherington, James P. Weatherington, Plus Weatherington, Achiles Weatherington, Urban W. Weatherington, Thomas J. Weatherington, Joseph Weatherington, Leo O. Weatherington, Green R. Weatherington, William R. Weatherington, Raymond Ward, John W. White, George Woodrum, Thomas J. Wheeler
Company D, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: Samuel J. Coyne, George Hammers
1st Lieutenant: Peterson Roff
2nd Lieutenant: John W. S. Smith
Sergeants: Martin Douthitt, John F. O. Shnepel, Charles M. Schaffer, John F. Simms, Isaac Lyons, Frederick M. Hogan, Richard A. S. Barger
Corporals: Robert T. Maysey, John J. Klippert, G. W. Reynolds, Patrick Adkins, John R. Hawkins, John Young Jr., William M. Eskridge, Johnson Stiles, William L. West, Stephen Rollins, Charles C. Rollins
Musician: James A. Smith
Wagoners: John T. Starr, John W. Noble
Privates: Andrew J. Agnew, William D. Agnew, Bartlett Adkins, Marshall Angel, David F. Barnes, Robert E. Black, Nelson Bell, Micajah Bennett, Charles Burriss, Noah Burriss, Harrison Brown, Ezra Bell, David H. Cunningham, Thomas Chambers, John Chambers, Jackson Carroll, Benjamin H. Canary, Lucian S. Clark, Marion W. Connor, William H. Casey, Rolla Clarke, Samuel P. Derbin, James Donald, Eli Dunn, Andrew S. Farmer, James A. Farmer, William L. Foot, John Hanks, William Hanks, James Haycraft, William J. Hawkins, William H. Hicks, Samuel A. Hicks, John Jarboe, Thomas J. Kelm, Stanley S. Kelm, John Kelm, John Lewis, Joshua Livingston, Morris Logan, Reuben E. Livers, Phillip McWoodruff, Samuel McAfee, James McLary, George W. McKaughan, William A. Mitchell, John Nix, Samuel Noble, William S. Overton, Isaac Pullin, George W. Pleasant, William J. Peckinpaugh, James H. Peckinpaugh, Martin W. Rollins, Henry E. Sims, Alfred N. Starr, Benjamin H. Starr, Micajah B. Stith, Squire W. Troutman, Silas M. Taber, Frederick Tinnis, John Vandegriff, Samuel P. Wilson, William M. Young, Davis T. Young, Martin V. Young.
Sergeant Hardy U. Jaggers and Private William Bennett
Photograph courtesy Jaggers descendent Florence Thompson
Company E, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: John R. Robinson, John R. Fisher, Thomas T. Fisher
1st Lieutenants: Benjamin A. Rice, Robert D. Willian
2nd Lieutenants: Daniel B. Waggener, Alexander Shiveley
Sergeants: Benjamin F. Douglas, Hardy U. Jaggers, Charles Taylor, May M. Hall, James A. Culberson, James H. McCubbins
Corporals: Rezen D. Overstreet Sr., Fleming S. Benningfield, William J. Sullivan, Francis M. Taylor, William H. Kertly, John S. Seay, William J. Hall, William H. Smith
Privates: Andrew J. Avery, John S. Benningfield, William Bennett, Samuel S. Bennett, John T. Bergen, Julius F. Boston, Paul C. Bowles, Joseph S. Cassedy, William A. Colvin, James Durham, William Durham, Thomas Eaten, David Elkin, Robert W. Estes, David Gibson, William Green, George Green, George W. Godby, James L. Horton, William T. Horton, Oscar F. Horton, William Harrison, Samuel Hodges, John Ireland, Andrew J. Jones, George W. Jones, William Jones, Robert L. Kerr, William C. Kerr, William Lambert, John R. Lobb, George W. Mears, William J. Moore, Dudley Middleton, Martin L. Mitchell, Henry Mason, John J. Martin, Samuel B. McCubbins, George T. McCubbins, John S. Newcomb, Mathew T. Newcomb, James Overstreet, Razin Overstreet Jr., Willis Prewett, William Pointer, James H. Pointer, William T. Puryear, Dandridge Poor, Charles W. Poor, Samuel A. Phillips, James K. Philpot, Daniel T. Reynolds, Thomas Reynolds, James M. Richison, Randolph W. Rice, Albert G. Smith, David J. Smith, John R. Smith, Benjamin S. Smith, William W. Smith, James M. Smith, James F. Skaggs, Bird W. H. Skaggs, Alfred S. Skaggs, George W. Sexton, Rodolph C. Thorp, Thomas B. Witherspoon, George W. Wheat, Booker Wheat, John W. Whitley, William Whitman, John Wright, Gustavus Wallace.
Company F, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captain: Henry B. Grant
1st Lieutenants: John H. Adams, Riley Wilson, Daniel B. Goode, John W. Taylor
2nd Lieutenant: None
Sergeants: John L. Nottingham, Hardin F. Judd, Thomas F. Lucas, Edward F. Smiley, Green B. Payne, Thomas M. Basham
Corporals: Jonathan G. Cocke, James M. Lockard, Samuel T. Smith, William F. Nottingham, William Richardson, James Givens, Henry T. Blantford, John Smiley
Privates: Berry S. Armes, James Armes, William Blair, Charles Blair, Adam Brewster, John T. Brown, James L. Brown, William Butler, Ewing Burks, William Carman, Elijah Carman, Christopher C. Carman, Hardin Carman, Frazier Carman, Ralph M. Crume, Edward L. Clark, Ralph Clark, Robert Clark, James W. Clements, Thomas Curley, James Dunn, Felix Dowell, Jackson Davidson, Levi Elliott, John W. Eanes, Samuel Farrow, Felix Galloway, Phillip Greenwell, John Greenwell, Berry Greenwell, Michael Haney, James Howard, John Horsley, Stephen Horsley, George W. Hiter, John M. hay, Joseph W. Hudson, Joseph Hudson, George M. Johnson, Warden Kinnison, Benjamin H. Lucas, Benjamin Lucas, Charles Lucas Jr., Richard Z. Lucas, William Lucas, Joseph Lucas, Edward Lucas, John W. Moore, James F. Mattingly, Allen Nottingham, Anthony Prewitt, Presley P. Paul, Daniel Preston, Edward P. Paul, Iaiah Pulliam, Edward Quiggins, William C. Quiggins, Thomas Roney, Samuel B. Robinson, Henry T. Smith, George H. Smiley, Thomas C. P. Sipes, William P. Tucker, Thomas W. Tucker, Ira Wilson, Robert Wilson, Wilson T. Wilson, Roland Wilson, David H. Wilson, Reuben M. Whitacker, Peter M. Winnings, Richard Woodson
Company G, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: Harvey W. Sutton, James Griffin
1st Lieutenants: William Wilson, Henry W. Didway
2nd Lieutenant: None
Sergeants: Charles A. Dean, Robert Barbour, Joseph Rogers, Asaph A. Quigley, James Dougherty, David edinger, Johnson W. Glover, Angus L. Martin, William Ammerman, Robert Monroe
Corporals: Joseph Walthall, Erastus Goodrich, William R. Arnold
Privates: Joseph Anderson, Jacob Anderson, William H. Anderson, Jacob Adams, John C. Ashe, Thomas Anthony, George Bechtold, John T. Bergen, Robert Buchanan, James A. Crist, Benjamin F. Casey, John C. Casey, James E. Christy, John H. Cooper, William J. Cooper, Ashbill B. Carle, Thompson Copen, Bartlett Copen, George W. Copen, James Dearnon, Morton B. Finck, Gustave Greisenbroker, John Gearhart, Fredrick Gearhart, Samuel Gloar, G. T. Gallion, Charles Hartzog, Albert Huebner, George Harper, Harvey Hopkins, Jasper Hutchins, Christopher Hartman, Luther C. High, Simeon Helms, Henry B. Hodges, James J. Johnson, John Jones, Lewis Kurtz, John Krout, Andrew Knight, Edward D. Kemp, W. H. Lockwood, Ferdinand Limback, Asa Lewis, James E. London, Thomas W. Ludington, John Middleton, John Marshall, Peter Mills, Patrick Marcey, Henry Mason, George T. McKee, John P. McDonald, John Noll, John Owens, William R. Owens, Robert S. Owens, John O'Rourke, Edmine O'Neil, Roderick Phillips, John T. Rose, John Rose, John J. Spencer, Jacob F. Stewart, Frederick R. Smith, George Snyder, William H. Stark, John Stiner, Thomas T. Skelton, Western F. Tucker, John W. Thompson, Abram White, John Willis, Isaac Works
Company H, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captains: Albert B. Ragsdale, Beckwith Bealmear
1st Lieutenant: John W. Jennings
2nd Lieutenants: George W. Williams, Basil B. Summers
Sergeants: William H. Aubrey, Charles H. Jupin, Robert F. Craddock, Augustus P. Kurtz, George W. Duncan, Richard Hopkins
Corporals: James B. Overall, Ephraim W. Standford, Josiah Hall, Henry L. Tucker, William G. Thomas, Benjamin F. Barnes, William T. Smith, William F. Perry, William H. H. Taylor, William Neff, Greenberry Shehan, Albert C. Taylor
Privates: Samuel Anderson, James Anderson, Robert W. Barnes, A. H. Boles, James H. Bingham, James Bates, William J. Consley, John Casteel, James Campbell, Thomas J. Caswell, William P. Daugherty, Gabriel R. Daugherty, Thomas Doudle, Joseph Davis, Williard Dewey, John O. Edwards, John Fenwick, Greenberry Gilbert, James E. Gray, William D. Gildersleve, James W. Hubbard, Charles Hopkins, Samuel A. Hardin, Thomas G. Holloway, Joseph Hale, William S. Jordan, JamesKendle, Andrew Long, Andrew J. Lile, Harrison Logsden, Joseph Logsden, Caffrey Martin, James L. Martin, Finius C. Mann, John W. Pointer, Pleasent C. Priddy, William Price, Benjamin F. Pumphrey, James A. Pointer, Oliver Riley, William B. Rogers, Alfred B. Thomas, Isaac Thomas, Henry C. Thomas, David Thurman, Benjamin F. Whitlock, John E. Woolridge, Jesse A. Wilson, George D. Winston, Brice S. Whitlock, John K. West, John A. Whitlock
Company I, 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
Captain Ezra Ward Frank
Photo courtesy descendant Jeanette Nevitt Palmer.
Captains: William F. Hervey, Benjamin F. Pumphrey, Ezra Ward Frank
1st Lieutenant: Samuel H. Haynes
2nd Lieutenants: William B. White, Joseph S. Higdon
Sergeants: Stephen D. Babbett, Andrew J. Oller, George W. Kinkaid, Willis Frank, James D. Kiper
Corporals: Willis C. Houchins, Joseph B. Sullivan, Stephen Frank, John Downs
Musicians: Robert Scott, John Laslie
Privates: Ancel Allen, Iredel D. Buckles, William H. Coats, Charles Cox, William Cox, Nelson Cox, Pearson W. Clifford, Edmund Day, Harvey Decker, Squire J. Decker, Jacob Edwards, William A. Edwards, William Fraim, James Pl Flemmon, Benjamin Glass, Jacob Glass, Benjamin F. Glass, Jesse Glass, Henry Glass, Moses Hatfield, Jonathan Hicks, William M. Higgs, Isaac Hays Sr., John Irvine, Francis M. Jones, Samuel Kiper, William Kiper, William Kirby, William Kinser, Alexander Meredith, John R. Meredith, Stroud Meredith, Thomas Meredith, Abraham Meredith, Sanford P. Pool, James Roundtree, William Smoot, Hardin Stevenson, Dorsey B. Stone, John Salling, Isaac Schall, Charles Willhelm, John Willhelm Jr., Joseph Willis, James M. Williams, Preston Williams, John Willhelm Sr., Joseph Wilson, James Wilson, Peter Wilson, Thomas Willis