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

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REFERENCES:

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