Paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 2, 1865. The regiment remained at Camp Trenton, unattached to any brigade, until just before the Battle of Shiloh , April 6-7, 1862. The action report for that engagement stated that the 47th, unattached, arrived on the field April 7. On May 26th, at Corinth Mississippi, it was reported in Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk s Corps, Brigadier General Charles Clark s Division, Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson s Brigade, composed of the 12th, 13th, 22nd, and 47th Tennessee Infantry Regiments, and Bankhead s Battery. The regiment left Corinth, Mississippi May 29th for Tupelo, Mississippi, where it remained until July 25th.
Company reports show much sickness in the regiment while at Tupelo.
It left Tupelo via Mobile and Chattanooga, for Knoxville, to Join Major General E. Kirby Smith for his invasion of Kentucky. From Knoxville, it marched on foot, many of the men barefoot, over the Cumberland Mountains to Barbourville, to London, to Richmond , Kentucky, where it was engaged in the battle on August 30, 1862. Here the 47th reported eight killed and twenty-four wounded. From Perryville, it retreated through Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, to Knoxville, where it took the railroad to Chattanooga. In this battle the 47th was Commanded by W. M. Watkins, and reported 86 casualties out of 263 engaged.