47th AL Infantry Muster Roll

Muster Roll, 47th Alabama Volunteer Infantry

Search Index: | Co. "A" | Co. "B" | Co. "C" |
| Co. "D" | Co. "E" | Co. "F" | Co. "G" | Co. "H" | Co. "I" | Co. "K" | Appomattox Paroles |

(A typical entry contains some or all of the following information:
Name [variant spellings], (birth-death), rank, company, age at enlistment, occupation || sources)

Regimental Field and Staff Officers:

OLIVER, James McCarthy, Col. [12 May 1831, Elbert Co., GA-23 Aug 1896, Perry, GA] (promoted, Col., 22 May 62; resigned, 11 Aug 62; a lawyer, Chambers Co., AL)
JACKSON, James W., Lt. Col., Col. [1831-1 July 1865] (promoted Lt. Col., 22 May 62; to Col., 11 Aug 62; wounded, Sharpsburg; resigned, 10 July 63; residence: Tallapoosa Co., AL; burial: Greenville, GA, City Cemetery)
JOHNSTON, John Y., Major [12 June1832-7 April 1886] (promoted, Major; burial: Sardis Cemetery, Walnut Hill, AL)
BULGER, Michael Jefferson, Major, Lt. Col., Col. [13 Feb 1806, Richland Distr., SC-11 Sept 1900, Tallapoosa Co., AL] (promoted, Major, 23 Aug 62, Lt. Col., 13 Sept 62, Col., 10 July 63; wounded, Cedar Mountain; wounded and captured, Gettysburg; exchanged, 10 March 64; retired to Invalid Corps, 14 Feb 65 || Burton; NARA)
CAMPBELL, James McDonald, Major
TERRELL, Leigh Richmond, Lt. Col. [1835, VA-22 Oct 1864] (promoted, Lt., 4th AL, 61; to Capt., and AAG to Evander Law, 14 Oct 62; to Lt. Col., 47th AL, 15 June 64; wounded, 18 June 64; mortally wounded, 13 Oct 64, and died, 22 Oct 64; a lawyer, Uniontown, AL)
BURTON, J. R., Surgeon
COOKE, J. P., Asst Surgeon
RIDGEWAY, Michael A., Asst Surgeon (residence: Chambers Co.; enlisted, 1 June 62; absent without leave from 12 Feb 64; dropped from rolls, 8 Feb 65)
STAN, W. G., Chaplain
HERREN, Wade A., A.C.S.
DAWSON, L. H., Asst. Quartermaster
GARRETT, H. A., Adj.
KELLER [KELLAR?], William Henry, Adj. [-23 Jan 1917] (burial: Greenville, GA, City Cemetery)
JORDAN, R. E., Adj.
SMITH, D. J., Ensign
ATWELL, G., QM Sgt.

Sources of roster information:
Information for this roster of the Forty-seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment is taken from several sources, but primarily from Joseph Q. Burton's Historical Sketches of the Forty-Seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.. All sources, other than the National Archives and Records Service [Compiled Service] records, may be considered secondary sources and therefore subject to error. Corrections to the roster are welcomed, so long as a source of information is provided.

Willis Brewer, Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men, Spartanburg, SC : The Reprint Co., 1975 (|| Brewer)
Joseph Q. Burton, and Theophilus F. Botsford, Historical Sketches of the Forty-seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., introduced by William Stanley Hoole, University, AL : Confederate Publishing Co., 1982 (|| Burton)
Confederate Military History [Alabama] (|| CMH)
Confederate Veteran [periodical] (|| CV)
National Archives and Records Administration. [47th Alabama Infantry files] (|| NARA)
[I am indebted to Mr. Greg Wilson, Tupelo, MS, for transcribing these records and making them avialable]
Southern Historical Society Papers (|| SHSP)
The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires, Easly, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985 (|| TCW)
Mamie Yeary, Recollections of the boys in gray, 1861-1865, Dayton, OH: Morningside Books, 1986 (|| Yeary)

Search Index: | Co. "A" | Co. "B" | Co. "C" | Co. "D" |
| Co. "E" | Co. "F" | Co. "G" | Co. "H" | Co. "I" | Co. "K" | Appomattox Paroles |

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