Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, Illinois, became the home station of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry from the arrival of the regiment February 24th, 1904, until February 26th, 1913. The Third Battalion was sent to Columbus Barracks, Ohio, for station, and remained there until March 18, 1905, when the battalion took station 

at Fort Sheridan. Companies "B" and "C" were temporarily stationed at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, between June 18th and July 31st, 1904. During the two and a half years following its arrival in the States the regiment engaged in the usual garrison duties, with an occasional march of more than ordinary length. Now and then a battalion, or smaller unit, would make a trip for a few days to some neighboring city to participate in a parade or public ceremony of note.1 For a while the regiment was united, but the Twenty-Seventh was destined to be separated in subsequent service. 

The regiment, less the Third Battalion, hiked from Fort Sheridan to Nora, Wisconsin, about 228 miles, in the summer of 1906, and thence traveled by train to Fort Benjamin Harrison for extended maneuvers. The month following their return from Fort Benjamin Harrison, the units of the regiment, less the Third Battalion, left for Cuba by way of Newport News, Virginia. They sailed on the S.S. "Senaca", and arrived at Camp Columbia, Havana, on October 12th, 1906. In the same month a machine gun platoon was organized in compliance with War Department orders.2

"In the West Indies the Army was called upon to act in a very delicate mission. The Cuban government was beset with an insurrection of such alarming proportions that it requested assistance from the United States. At once the President dispatched five regiments of infantry, two of cavalry and several batteries of artillery.  

After the arrival of so many well disciplined troops the insurrection cooled and ceased. For two years thereafter they kept order in Cuba by their very presence, and without resort to arms."3 Companies and detachments of the Twenty-Seventh were stationed at Camp Columbia, Bejucal, Lajas Pinar del Rio, Marianao,

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