Co. "I" (Chambers County; initial muster at Camp Shorter, near Loachapoka, AL, 18 April 1862, by Colonel James M. Oliver, for three years or the duration of the war)

Officers:

JACKSON, James W., Capt. (wounded, Sharpsburg; promoted, Lt. Col.; resigned, 10 July 63 || Brewer, Burton, Oates)
KELLAM [KELLUM?], James W., Capt. (resigned, 1 Nov 62 || Brewer, Burton, Oates)
BUCKELEW, S. B., Capt. (dropped, 16 March 64)
VINCENT, Ike H. [J. H.?], Capt. [-1897]
ANDREWS, Milton, 1st Lt. (died in service, 29 Sept 62)
BURGESS, J. F., 1st Lt.
FRAZ[I]ER, John A., 2nd Lt.
ROBINSON, W. L. [W. M.?], 2nd Lt.
ROBINSON, W. W. C., 2nd Lt. (resigned, 9 Sept 62)
TOWLES, Albert, Jr. 2nd Lt., Capt. (cashiered, 19 Feb 63 || Burton, Oates)

DOZIER, E. A. , 1st Sgt.
SANDERS, Jasper Taylor, 1st Sgt. [4 Jan 1844-1926] (paroled, Appomattox; burial: Sanders Family Cemetery, Chambers Co., AL || Burton)
ABERNATHY, David Hugh Boyd, 3rd Sgt. [4 July 1838-8 Feb 1931] (burial: Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, NW of Lafayette, AL)
ABERNATHY, Samuel Joseph Stuart, 4th Sgt. [16 April 1840-27 Feb 1929] (burial: Palo Pinto Cemetery, Palo Pinto Co., TX)
COGGINS, James M., 5th Sgt. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
MATHIS, James M., 2nd Sgt.
SMITH, John F., Sgt. (burial: Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania CH, VA)
WILLIAMS, James H. [1842-Jan 1914], 5th Sgt. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)

ADAMS, R. T., 1st Cpl.
ABERNATHY, James W. T., 2nd Cpl. [3 Aug 1833-26 March 1917] (burial: Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, NW of Lafayette, AL)
CASSEY, W. M., 3rd Cpl.
HUTSON, E. H., 4th Cpl.
WELDEN, A. J., 1st Cpl. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)

Privates:

ABERNATHY, William F. [19 Jan 1838-20 July 1929] (burial: Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Chambers Co., AL)
ANDREWS [ANDRESS?], Daniel (burial: Confederate Section, Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA, grave 1, row 1, lot 180)
ANDRESS, Eugene
AMOS, Thomas
BALDWIN, William D. (burial: Old Rocky Branch Church Cemetery, Randolph Co., AL || Cindy Baldwin)
BASSETT, R. L.
BEATY, Thomas C.
BLACKSTON, Dave
BROWN, Ezikiel I.
BROWN, Henry C.
BUCKALEW, S. B.
BURGESS, Augus F.
BURGESS, J. F.
BURTON, J. Q.
BURTON, J. R.
CALLAHAN, W. S.
CAMPBELL, Jessie
CAMPBELL, Martin
CAMPBELL, Richard
CAMPBELL, J. H.
CARPENTER, Elisha
CARTER, C. T.
CAWLEY, Pickney
CAWSEY, Wright
CHAFFIN, John W. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
CHAPPELL, Cicero (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
COOPER, H. J.
CROWDER, James Preston
CRUMBY, T. I. H.
DUKE, R. L.
ELLINGTON, Jessie
ENNIS, Marion
ENNIS, William Pinkney [24 Feb 1842-11 June 1910] (burial: City Cemetery, Lanett, AL)
FEARS, Samuel B.
FLOUREY, Augus
FOSTER, Marion T.
FRAZ[I]ER, Alexander
FRAZ[I]ER, John A. [1 Nov 1841-22 Aug 1919] (burial: Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Chambers Co., AL)
FRAZIER, W. H.
FULLER, Jessie J.
GILDER, Phillip
GRIGGS, Thomas J.
HARRALSON, K. C.
HARRIS, J. T. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
HOWARD, Henry H.
HUBBARD, William H. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
HUCKABY, D. G.
HUFF, J. T.
JACKSON, Burrell N. [21 Jan 1833-28 May 1862] (burial: Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, NW of Lafayette, AL)
JOHNSON, E.C.
JORDON, E. P.
JORDON, William H.
KELLUM, Robert J.[9 Feb 1829-15 Oct 1908] (burial: City Cemetery, Brundidge, AL)
KELLUM, Thomas
LAMB, E. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
LINDSEY, J. M. L.
MATHIS, James M.
MATHIS, R. L. [R. R.?]
McCLENDON, Edward [Edgar?]
McDONALD, R. R. [-5 April 1863] (burial: Blandford Church Cemetery, Petersburg, VA)
MITCHELL, T. B.
MITCHUM [MITCHAM?], Hezekiah
MITCHUM, William
MITCHUM [MICHAM?], W. S.
MORGAN, J. C.
MYHAND [MYHARD?], W. H. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
PARKER, Stephen
PEADEN, William J. (enlisted, 16 April 62, aged 35; wounded, 9 Aug 62, Cedar Run, VA, and died in hospital, 13 Nov 62, Staunton, VA; burial: Thornhill Cemetery, Staunton, VA || Dwain Peaden)
RICE, Benjamin [-1 Dec 1862] (died in service; burial: Our Soldiers Cemetery, Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah Co., VA)
ROBINSON, A. L.
SAMUEL, Russell [RUSSELL, Samuel?]
SANDERS, Julius Hampton (burial: Sanders Family Cemetery, Chambers Co., AL)
SCOTT, Charles
SCOTT, Thomas A.
SHELTON, J. M.
SLOAN, John D. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
SMITH, David S.
SMITH, John F. (burial: Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania, VA)
STAPLES, Lindsey
STAPP, William C. (died of disease, 2nd Division AL Hospital, Richmond, VA, 2 Feb 63 || NARA)
THOMAS, Lott
VINCENT, J. H. [J. C.?]
WALLS, J. H.
WATSON, Andress
WEBB, Henry
WELDING, A. J.
WELDING, Jonathan
WELDING, Merrill
WILLIAMS, J. T.
WILLIAMS, W. M. (paroled, Appomattox || Burton)
WILSON, Andress A.
WRIGHT, John
WRIGHT, Thomas

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)
  

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