47th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 47th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

47th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin
Active	February 27, 1865 – September 4, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Engagements	American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel	George Clay Ginty

Service

The 47th Wisconsin was organized at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service on February 27, 1865, arriving at Louisville, Kentucky, on February 28. They then travelled to Nashville, then Tullahoma, Tennessee, at the junction of the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad with the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. They remained here on guard duty until August, when they returned to Nashville where they were mustered out.

The regiment returned to Madison, Wisconsin, on September 4, 1865, where they were paid and disbanded.

Casualties

The 47th Wisconsin suffered 39 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 39 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

• Colonel George Clay Ginty

Notable people

• Nels Anderson, 1st Lt. of Co. D, later a Wisconsin state legislator.
• Charles H. Baxter, Captain of Co. K, later a Wisconsin state legislator.
• Thomas J. Shear, later a Wisconsin state legislator.
• William Young, Captain of Co. A, later a Wisconsin state legislator.

See also

• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive

Further reading

• Quiner, Edwin B. (1866). "Regimental History – Forty Second to Fifty Third Infantry". The Military History of Wisconsin. Chicago: Clark & Co. pp. 863–864.