The 47th Indiana Infantry was organized at Anderson and Logansport, Indiana November 2 through December 13, 1861, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of ColonelJames Richard Slack.
The regiment was attached to 19th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January 1862. 19th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to February 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of the Mississippi, to April 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Mississippi, to July 1863. Helena, Arkansas, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of the Missouri, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of the Tennessee, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 12th Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to February 1863. 1st Brigade, 13th Division, XIII Corps, to March 1863. 2nd Brigade, 12th Division, XIII Corps, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to August 1863, and Department of the Gulf to June 1864. District of LaFourche, Department of the Gulf, to July 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to December 1864. 1st Brigade, Reserve Division, Military Division, West Mississippi, to February 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Reserve Corps, Military Division, West Mississippi, February 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XIII Corps, Military Division, West Mississippi, to May 1865. Department of Louisiana to October 1865.
The 47th Indiana Infantry mustered out of service October 23, 1865, and discharged November 2, 1865, at Indianapolis.
The regiment lost a total of 336 men during service; 2 officers and 80 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 250 enlisted men died of disease.
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This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
Williamson, David, ed. Slack's War: Selected Civil War Letters of General James R. Slack, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to His Wife, Ann, 1862-1865 (S.l.: CreateSpace Publishing Platform), 2012. ISBN1478379588.
Williamson, David, ed. The 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry: Court-Martial Case Files (S.l.: CreateSpace Publishing Platform), 2012. ISBN1477687572.