Wednesday, October 22, 1862
The Twenth-Seventh Connecticut Regiment was mustered into service today at Camp Terry in New Haven, with a count of eight-hundred and twenty-nine enlisted men and officers. Among the enlistees was Augustus Baldwin Fairchild, a twenty-five year old coach trimmer from New Haven. Augustus enlisted on September 9 and joined the regiment on October 3. Upon mustering in the Twenty-Seventh departed Camp Terry to embark on railroad cars headed south for war. Augustus would mark his twenty-sixth birthday on Friday, October 24, during the journey south.1
References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 10-11.
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