47th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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https://civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org/reg_html/047_reg.html

47th Illinois Infantry Regiment
Three Year Service
August 16, 1861 - January 21, 1866
Consolidated into 4 Companies, November 28, 1864
6 Additional Companies of Recruits Joined Regiment, April 1865
Assigned to:

• Army of the Mississippi: February 1862 - November 1862
• Military Division West Mississippi: February 1865 - August 1865

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
New Madrid/Island No. 10, Siege of Corinth, Iuka, Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Jackson, Siege of Vicksburg], Red River Campaign, Pleasant Hill, Ft Blakely

Adjutant General's Regiment History
Frederick Dyer's Regimental History

Original Organization

47th Infantry Field & Staff
Non-Commissioned Staff
Band

The original regiment did not have a Unassigned Recruits
or Unassigned/Substitute/Drafted Recruits

Link to Roster
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H
Company I
Company K

47th (Consolidated) Illinois Infantry RegimentConsolidated into 4 Companies, November 28, 18646 Additional Companies of Recruits Joined Regiment, April 1865

Consolidated Organization

47th Infantry Field & Staff
Non-Commissioned Staff
Unassigned Recruits

The Consolidated Regiment did not have a Band or Unassigned/Substitute/Drafted Recuits

Link to Roster
Company A (Consolidated)
Company B (Consolidated)
Company C (Consolidated)
Company D (Consolidated)
Company E (Consolidated)
Company F (Consolidated)
Company G (Consolidated)
Company H (Consolidated)
Company I (Consolidated)
Company K (Consolidated)

 

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Colonel John Bryner of the 47th Illinois Infantry. Formerly serving as a captain with the National Blues he would be commissioned a colonel in October, 1861. He immediately set about organizing the 47th Illinois and would lead them during the Battle of Corinth. Not long after the battle he would fall seriously ill and resigned his commission in September, 1862. Returning to Illinois he would not sit idly by as the war continued. Bryner would work to raise the 85th, 86th, 103rd, 108th and the 112th Illinois regiments during his convalescence. When the 139th Illinois was raised Bryner would accept a commission as a 1st lieutenant and assistant quartermaster for the regiment from June to September, 1864. During the spring of 1865 his old regiment, the 47th Illinois returned home on veteran's leave after the hard fought Red River Campaign. While Bryner was encamped in Cario, what was left of his old command came to see him in mass. There they presented him with a petition sign by every officer and member of the regiment requesting Bryner to take command of the regiment. He would accept the request and was reappointed the colonel of his old regiment on March 17, 1865. The regiment was reorganized and not long after the colonel would fall terribly ill and would not recover. Just 2 days after his reappointment Bryner would succumb to the illness on March 19th at the Chenery House.

 

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Colonel Nelson Cromwell of the 47th Illinois Infantry. Cromwell would be commissioned a captain with Co. A beginning in August of 1861. In 1862 he would receive promotions to both major and colonel. His promotion to colonel came after his release from Libby Prison. He was captured during the Iuka Campaign after he went to check on the welfare of some pickets under his command during the night. He would afterwards vow to never be captured again and he would hold true to his words. In May, 1863 he would be killed at Jackson, Mississippi. While in command of the rear guard he went into town to visit with some wounded troops. To seriously wounded to be moved and they were expected to fall into enemy hands later that day as Federal forces withdrew. After leaving to return to his command a force of Confederate cavalry had managed to come down a side street and cut him off. Ordered to surrender he instead pulled out a pistol and began firing dropping one cavalryman from the saddle. Confederates returned fire and he was shot multiple times rather than surrender. The uniform which you see worn here along with the rest of his personal belongings are currently residing in a private collection.

 

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Identified as James P. Murray of the 47th Illinois Infantry. Murray would muster with Co. K starting in September, 1861. He would serve with the regiment up until mid December of 1863 when Murray transferred into the Veteran Reserve Corps for unspecified reasons. This one is identified on the back as having been taken at Fort Madison, Iowa.

 

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Bugles Echoes can be read online:

https://archive.org/details/bugleechoesstory01bryn

 

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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/58ykm4cp9780252068539.html

The Drums of the 47th

An extraordinarily vivid, thoughtful, and literary memoir of the common soldier's experience during the Civil War by a professional writer.

This eloquent memoir records the Civil War experiences of Robert J. Burdette, private in the 47th Illinois Infantry Regiment.

From Peoria to Corinth, from Corinth to Vicksburg, up the Red River country, down to Mobile and Fort Blakely, and back to Tupelo and Selma, the 47th marched three thousand miles during Burdette's tour, from March 1862 to December 1864.

In a literate voice rare in war memoirs, Burdette speaks of comradeship built and tested, the noise and confusion of the battlefield, the conflicting feelings of witnessing a military execution. Both nostalgic and piercingly immediate, his remembrances evoke the sights, sounds, smells, and above all the inner feelings stirred up by war, from exuberance to terror and from patriotic fervor to compassion for a fallen enemy.

Originally published--on the eve of another great conflict--in 1914, The Drums of the 47th is a moving depiction of the inner life of the common soldier. Like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, Burdette's book puts a human face on the war and his words speak to all who have served or imagined serving under fire. The introduction by John E. Hallwas provides a biographical sketch of Burdette and a commentary on his engaging Civil War memoir.

 

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http://peoria.illinoisgenweb.org/military/civil-war-centenial.html

Union Officers in the 47th Illinois camped in Oxford, Mississippi in December of 1862.
http://www.thelocalvoice.net/oxford...ed-in-oxford-mississippi-in-december-of-1862/