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47th Tennessee Infantry

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Company B

Private

My first cousin four times removed. Born March 9 1846 in Gibson County Tennessee. Enlisted April 4 1862 at Camp Trenton TN. at the age of sixteen. Discharged January 20 1863 at Shelbyville TN. for being under-age. Died July 26 1901. Buried Crockett County Tennessee.
Contributor Darron WilliamsDate added 9/18/2006

Company B

Private

My first cousin four times removed. Born July 25 1847 in Gibson County Tennessee. Enlisted Feb.14 1862, Camp Trenton Gibson County TN, at the age of fourteen. Discharged Jan. 20 1863 at Shelbyville TN. for being under-age. Died Sept. 11 1914 in Crockett County TN. His widow Katherine Lucretia Henderson Reasons received a widow's pension for his service.
Contributor Darron WilliamsDate added 1/29/2006

Company B

Corporal

Looking for other descendants of members of Company ''B'' of the 47th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Are there any known photographs of members of this unit?
Contributor Barry ReevesDate added 9/6/2004

Company B

Private

This is my great grandfather''s brother. He died August 1, 1862 in a Tupelo, Mississippi military hospital.
Contributor Barry ReevesDate added 9/6/2004

Company B

Private

Israel was born in SC. When he was 13 years old, his father died. He and his brother Noah went to live with their sister, Isabella Taylor Hawkins in Dyersburg, TN. Israel, along with Noah and their brother in law, Simeon Peter Hawkins, enlisted in the 47th. He died in the War in 1863 and is buried in an unmarked grave in TN, leaving behind his widow Frances and two young sons, Fletcher and Austin.
Contributor Lynda RutenkrogerDate added 10/11/2023

Company B

Private

Noah, along with his brother Israel and brother in law, Simeon Peter Hawkins, enlisted in the 47th. Israel and Simeon both died in the War. Noah apparently went AWOL and moved to FL where other members of his family and moved from SC.
Contributor Lynda RutenkrogerDate added 10/11/2023

Company F

1st Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Clayton HillDate added 1/18/2011

Company G

Private

William entered the service 12/2/1861 from Gibson Co., TN. I have a long letter he wrote from Chattanooga dated Oct. 11, 1863. He was furloughed May 2, 1865 at Greensboro, NC. He died April 21, 1877, in Livingston Co., TN; buried Bellamy-Chesnuut Cemetery on the banks of the Ohio River.
Contributor J. C. MortensonDate added 9/23/2015

Company H

Private

My 2nd cousin six times removed. Enlisted December 3 1861. Surrendered with Army of Tennessee in North Carolina on April 26 1865. Paroled at Greensboro NC May 1st 1865
Contributor Darron WilliamsDate added 1/30/2009

Company H

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Barry DunaganHomepage http://www.geocities.com/bsdunaganDate added 7/24/2005

Company H

Private

Born: 1822 Hawkins County, Tn. Died: 1913 Jefferson County, tn. Joined with his brother Henry Webb. Married to Lydia A. Snodgrass and had 8 kids.
Contributor Eddie ElkinsDate added 2/5/2018

Company H

Private

Born: 1833 Hawkins County, tn. Died: 1895. Served with brother Gabriel Webb. Wife Mary Elizabeth Carpenter and had 4 kids.
Contributor Eddie ElkinsDate added 2/5/2018

Company I

Corporal

I have his service and pension records. He lived near Harris Station until moving to Izard county Arkansas in the 1870''s His brother William S. Brockwell and brother-in-law George Washington Oliver also served in Co. I
Contributor Charlie HammettDate added 10/24/2004

Company I

3rd Corporal

William enlisted along with his brother James H. at Troy Tn. Nov. 28 1861. He saw action at Shiloh on April 7th and was with the reg't at Richmond Ky and Murfreesboro Tn. where he was wounded in the arm by a minnie ball and in the left breast by artillery shrapnel. He was invalided out of the army, and returned to Harris Station in Obion Co. In 1905 he applied for and was granted a Confederate Soldier's Pension from Tennessee.
Contributor Charlie HammettDate added 9/15/2009

Company I

Private

At the age of seventeen, Andrew J. Collinsworth entered the army, joining Capt. Jesse L. Branch's company and then the Forty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, at Trenton, Tennessee commanded by Col. M.R. Hill. He served in the war with the distinction of being one of the bravest boys and hardest fighters in the service. He was severely wounded in what was known as the hardest picket fight during the war at Corinth, Miss., by a minie ball, which shattered his leg, and from which he was never fully recovered.
Contributor Jim CollinsworthDate added 4/6/2008

Company I

Private

I do not have complete service records at this time
Contributor Charlie HammettDate added 9/15/2009

Company I

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Michael RagsdaleDate added 12/3/2004

Company K

Private

My 3gt-grandfather, of Gibson County, Tennessee. Was captured at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Ill.
Contributor Glen Alan GrahamDate added 8/15/2013

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