PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

47th Pennsylvania Regiment

47th PA Regiment Biographies

• Colonel Tilghman Wood

• 47th Regiment
  
  Bates' Regimental History & Rosters

47th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg August and September, 1861.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., September 20-21.
• Attached to 3rd Brigade, W. F. Smith's Division, Army Potomac, to January, 1862.
• District of Key West, Fla., to June, 1862.
• District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. South, to November, 1862.
• District of Key West, Fla., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, November, 1862, and Dept. of the Gulf to February, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to July, 1864,
• And Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to February, 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, Provisional Division, Army Shenandoah, to April, 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, Dwight's Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to May, 1865.
• 3rd Brigade, Dwight's Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. South, to July, 1865.
• 1st Sub-District, South Carolina, Dept. South Carolina, to December, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till January, 1862.
• Moved to Key West, Fla., via Annapolis, Md.,
• And on Steamer "Orienta!" January 22-February 4.
• Duty at Fort Taylor, Key West, Fla., till June 18.
• Moved to Hilton Head, S. C, June 18-22,
• Thence to Beaufort, S.C., July 2,
• And duty there till October.
• Expedition to Florida September 30-October 13.
• St. John's Bluff October 3.
• Capture of Jacksonville October 5 (Cos. "E" and "K").
• Expedition from Jacksonville to Lake Beresford and capture of Steamer "Gov. Milton" near Hawkinsville October 6 (Cos. "E" and "K").
• Expedition to Pocotaligo, S.C., October 21-23.
• Frampton's Plantation and Pocotaligo Bridge October 22.
• Ordered to Key West, Fla., November 15.

  Service & Battles - 1863 - 1964

• Garrison Fort Taylor (Cos. "A," "B," "C," "E," "G" and "I") and Fort Jefferson (Cos. "D," "F," "H" and "K") till February, 1864.
• Moved to New Orleans, La., February 25.
• (Regiment reenlisted October, 1863, to February, 1864.)
• At Algiers, La., February 28.
• Banks' Red River Campaign March 10-May 22.
• Advance from Franklin to Alexandria March 14-26.
• Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8.
• Pleasant Hill April 9.
• Monett's Ferry, Cane River Crossing, April 23.
• Fatigue duty at Alexandria constructing dam across Red River April 30-May 10.
• Retreat to Morganza May 13-20.
• Mansura May 16.
• At Morganza till June 20.
• At New Orleans till July 5.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., July 5-12.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to November.
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Fisher's Hill September 22.
• Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.
• At Camp Russell, near Winchester, till December 20,

  Service & Battles - 1865

• And at Camp Fairview, Charlestown,
• And on outpost duty in West Virginia till April, 1865.
• Moved to Washington. D.C., April 19-21.
• Grand Review May 23-24.
• Moved to Savannah, Ga., May 31-June 4,
• And to Charleston, S.C., June 17.
• Duty at Charleston and other points in South Carolina till December.
• Mustered out December 25, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 112 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 170 Enlisted men by disease. Total 290.

47th PA Regiment Burials

• Batt, Peter; Sgt., born 2/19/1842, died 7/16/1910, buried Ardsley Burial Park, Montgomery County, PA
• Lightman, Sterrett; Pvt., died 8/19/1864, buried Mt. Moriah, Philadelphia, PA