The National tribune., 1893-08-24
The LIST MINI.

The regiment was organized at Fort SMELL
ing April %, 1861, to serve three years, and
was mustered out at the expiration of its
term of service, and the veteran recruits
consolidated into o battalion of two COM
panies and retained in service. Seven more
companies were organized at Rochester and
st. Paul, February and March, 1866, to serve
one year, and were assigned to the regiment
as Cos. G, d, E, F, G., II, and |, all being
mustered out of the service July IA, 1865.
Three Colonels Willis A. German, Napoleon
j. 7. Dana and Alfred Sully, were promoted
to be rigadierGeneralS one, Col. George
n. Morgan, resigned, and another, Col. Wm.
Cofyille, who received the brevet of Briga-
dier-General, was discharged, leaving the
regiment in command of Lieut.-Col. Mark
W. Downie. The regiment saw some very
hard service, and is one of Col. FOx's 300
fighting regiments. At Gettysburg 262 men
were engaged, of which AZ were killed and
1913 wounded, a total of 215, or percentage
of 81 per cent. of the whole number engaged.
In proportion to the number engaged the
regiment sustained the greatest loss sus-
tanned by any regiment during the war at
this battle. Alone and unsupported it was
ordered to make a charge and capture the
enemy's colors in order to gain time Gen.
Hancock ordered the charge and speaking
of it afterwards said that there was no more
gallant a deed recorded in history, as the
regiment entered the charge, captured the
cOlOrs and gained the much-desired time for
reinfOrcements to arrive. The total enlist
ment of the regiment was PAP, and in killed
in battle 167 men were lost, while 80 died
OF disease, accident, ETC., giving loss of 10
per cent of the total number of enlisted
men. 1t was in the battle of first Bull Run,
Picket, Goose Greek, Fair Oaks, Savage
Station, Glendale, Flint Hill, Vienna, Antie-
tam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Bristoe
Station, assault and siege of Petersburg,
Jerusalem Road, Deep Bottom, Ream's Sta
ton, and Boydton Road. 1t was also present
at Yorktown, West Point, Peach Orchard,
Malvern Hill, Second Fredericksburg, Mine
Run, Straw berry Plains, Hatchers Run,
Farmville, and AppomattOx. The regiment
was the first in the Union army to be mus
tered in the service for three years.
The 47th Ohio.
This regiment was organized at Camp
Dennison, o., Aug. 81, 1861, to serve three
years, and was retained in service until Aug.
H. 1865 when mustered out in accordance
with orders from the War Department.
Col. Frederick Poschner resigned July II,
1862; was succeeded by Col. LymanS. Elliott,
resigned Jan. IL, 1863 and Col. Augustus G.
Parry, who received the breyet of Brigadier-
General March Is, 1865, and was mustered
out June 10, 1865, leaving the regiment in
command of Mai. Thomas T. Taylor, who
was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel March 13,
1865 At the sieges and assaults on Vicks-
burg, and at Jackson, the regiment lost
heavily, and on the assault on Fort Me-
Allister a dispute arose between the 47th
and 10th Ohio as to whose flag was first
planted on the fort. The staff of Gen. Hazen
decided the matter by giving the honor to
the 47th. When the regiment entered the
field it numbered $50 men; at the termina-
tiOn of the Atlanta campaign it numbered
only 100 men, but subsequently its ranks
were partially filled by the addition of 400
recruits. 1t was attached TO Blair's Division,
of the Fifteenth Corps, when mustered out,
and lost in all 219 men. Two officers and
80 men were killed in action or died of
wounds and the remainder died of disease
or other causes