27th Georgia Infantry=This is an umbrella project for all of the companies of the 27th Georgia Infantry. See the Related Projects for details. Georgia InfantryThe Twenty-seventh Georgia Infantry was organized at Camp Stephens, near Griffin, Georgia in September 1861. Levi B. Smith was elected as its first colonel, and Charles T. Zachry was elected lieutenant colonel. On 31 October 1861, the uni...
47th Infantry Regiment Civil War Washington GraysHistoryMustered in: September 14, 1861 Mustered out: August 30, 1865The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912. Colonel Henry Moore received authority from the War Department, July 24, 1861, to recruit a regiment of infantry; it was recruited principally in New Y...