47th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment


HISTORICAL NOTES:
The 47th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at Davenport July 13, 1864. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days. Ordered to Helena, Ark., and duty there and in District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to September. Ordered to Davenport, Iowa, September 1. They mustered out September 28, 1864.

The Regiment lost during service 57 Enlisted men by disease.
OFFICERS:
ASSIGNMENTS:
District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, SERVICE:
  • Ordered to Helena, Arkansas, and duty there and in District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to September.
  • Ordered to Davenport, Iowa, September 1.
  • ROSTERS:
    The roster of this regiment contains 992 names.

  • Company A - enrolled in Marion County and Clayton County
  • Company B - enrolled in Appanoose County
  • Company C - enrolled in Benton County and Wapello County
  • Company D - enrolled in Buchanan County
  • Company E - enrolled in Madison County
  • Company F - enrolled in Polk County
  • Company G - enrolled in Johnson County
  • Company H - enrolled in Keokuk County
  • Company I - enrolled in Mahaska County
  • Company K - enrolled in Wapello County
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY:


    REFERENCES:

    REF: Wikipedia
    Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
    The Union Army by Federal Publishing Company

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