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47th Virginia Infantry
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Company Unknown
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John Dickerson - Private
Contact Name:
JENNIFER BUSTILLO
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 5/23/2016
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Company Unknown
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George J. Roberson - Unknown
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George was from Stafford County, Virginia I have a copy of his oath and parole dated May 8, 1865, His last name may have been spelled Robinson on some records. He also had a brother Thomas W. Roberson (Robinson who server in the 30th Va Infantry
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Contact Name:
Sam Roberson
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Date Added: 10/24/2014
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Company Unknown
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William C Shilling - Unknown
Contact Name:
Kathie Trent Kingery
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/31/2010
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Company Unknown
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wiley wright - Private
Contact Name:
danny r wright
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/6/2009
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Company A
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Tomlin Barnes - Unknown
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He is not a relative but is in a cemetary of the house that we own.
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Contact Name:
Chris Gulluscio
Contact Email:
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Contact Homepage: historicivycliff.com
Date Added: 1/22/2008
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Company A
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Littleton C Fleming - Private
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looking for any photos of this unit. I am trying to create a uniform to resemble this my relative.
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Company A
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Littleton C Fleming - Private
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Littleton enlisted under the name L.C. Flemming
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Contact Name:
Barbara Spears
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 9/7/2010
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Company A
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Cornelius Saunders Lucas - Other
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Lucas was a 'body servant' to Capt. William G. Pollock, commander of Company A. Following Pollock's death, Lucas served his younger brother, John Gray Pollock, who was commander of the Fredericksburg Artillery.
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Company A
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Aitcheson Pollock - Lieutenant
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He was William G Smith's brother, and resigned from the Army in the reorganization of 1862. He was my second great grandfather.
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Company A
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William G. Pollock - Captain
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William G., son of William Pollock and Jane Gray, was born at Rumford, on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg. He died of chronic diarrhea 7 January 1865, just a few months after his father died of dysentary.
Aitcheson Pollock (also of Company A), and John Gray Pollock (Fredericksburg Artillery) were his brothers.
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Company A
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Wist/Wirt Smith - Private
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Wirt in census, Wist in Civil War records.
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Contact Name:
Nan Krushinski
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/26/2009
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Company B
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Alonzo B Cleaves - Sergeant
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Born 1843, Shiloh, King George County,VA
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Contact Name:
Dennis Matteo S.C.V.
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Date Added: 12/9/2010
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Company C
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George Lindsey Sanford - Corporal
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From 'The Virginia Regimental History Series' by Home D. Musselman, 1991, p. 153.
47th Virginia
Sandford, George L: enl. 5/16/61 in Co. C. Present 6/30/62. Absent wounded on 12/31/62. Present 12/31/64 final roll with rank of Cpl.
According to his wife, Margaret Ann Davis of Zacata, VA George L Sanford died from complications of his wounds in March 1882 at home.
He was from Montross, VA
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Company C
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Thomas V Sanford - Captain
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book on the 47th Virginia by 'The Virginia Regimental History Series' by Homer D. Musselman, 1991, p. 153 says:
Sandford, Thomas V.: enl. 7/16/61 in Co. C. Present thru 8/31/62. Promoted to Lt. in Co. D on 9/23/62. Assigned AQM on 9/15/63. Detailed 4/11/64. Revoked 4/21/64.
Further research indicates he served as a Captain in the 47th Virginia Infantry CSA. Surrendered at Appomattox as Captain and paymaster of Field's Division. Following the war, married in Kentucky and eventually moved to Detroit, Michigan where he died in 1903
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Company C
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William P Sanford - Private
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book on the 47th Virginia by 'The Virginia Regimental History Series' by Homer D. Musselman, 1991, p. 153 says:
Sandford, William P.: enl. 5/16/61 in Co. C. On furlough in Westmoreland Co. for March 1862. KIA at Frayser's Farm on 6/30/62
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Company E
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Peter A Gravatt - Private
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B:Caroline Co. Enl, 21/June/1861 in Co.E. Present May/June 1862. Absent sick July/Aug 1862.AWOL on 31/Dec/1862.wounded, gunshot wound left thigh, on 4/June/1864. Absent wounded on 31/Dec/1864 final roll. Retired for disability on 18/Jan/1865; age 21 yrs.,5'11' tall,dark complexion, black eyes,black hair, student, Paroled at Bowling Green on 4/May/1865.Applied for pension in Carolne CO.on 13/June/1892; age 52 yrs old.; recieved $15.00/year. He claimed he was wounded. in left thigh at Gaines'Mill,in left arm at Gettysburg,and right foot at Mine Run.
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Contact Name:
Robert Jones
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/25/2010
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Company E
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Cornelius C Rose - Private
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My GGGrandfather was born in 1832 in Caroline County, Va. Enlisted in 1861 with his five brothers: Cornelius, Philip, Lovell, Howard, Heistin and Stephen. Some under Co. E 47th Regiment Virginia Infantry and the others with Capt. R.L. Walker's Company( Purcell Artillery)4th Regiment Virginia Artillery.
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Company G
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Andrew Jackson Gravatt - Sergeant
Contact Name:
Robert Jones
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 3/27/2009
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Company G
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George Washington Marshall - Lieutenant
Contact Name:
Robert Jones
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 3/29/2009
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Company H
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Edmond Dillard - Private
Contact Name:
Allen Glanville
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 3/29/2016
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Company H
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James F. Durvin - Private
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James F. Durvin was born about 1818 in Louisa County, VA. He joined the third Company H 47th Virginia Infantry in 1861. He died on May 19, 1862 at the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond of typhoid fever.
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Company H
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Charles Littleton Flippo - 1st Lieutenant
Contact Name:
Stephen Moyers Woodard
Contact Email:
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Contact Homepage: GivemTha Cold Steel Boys
Date Added: 1/26/2011
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Company H
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Major French Flippo - Private
Contact Name:
Stephen Moyers Woodard
Contact Email:
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Contact Homepage: Givem Tha Cold Steel Boys
Date Added: 1/26/2011
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Company H
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Cornelius Gravatt - Private
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30 year old manager in Caroline Co. Enl.21/June/1861 in Co.H. Present May-June 1862.Chimborazo Hospital for debility on 30/apr/1862; ferloughed for 15 days. Died 25/Aug/1862.
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Contact Name:
Robert Jones
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Date Added: 1/25/2010
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Company H
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WILLIAM TOLIVER HART - Private
Contact Name:
EDDIE STECKLER
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/25/2008
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Company H
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George M. Henshaw - Private
Contact Name:
Melissa Kennedy
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 10/2/2007
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Company H
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William Franklin Lewis - Private
Contact Name:
Pamela Fischer
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/13/2011
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Company H
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Henry Alexander Samuel - Private
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Company H
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Pichegru Southworth - Private
Contact Name:
Charles pitts
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/22/2015
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Company K
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Andrew J Barker - Private
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Andrew enlisted 7/23/1861. He was captured at Sayler's Creek on 4/6/1865, and was taken to Point Lookout Maryland. Andrew J. Barker is my gg grandfather.
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Contact Name:
Denise Barker
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Date Added: 7/12/2010
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Company K
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Paul J. Dickens - Sergeant
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Paul enlisted in Caroline County, VA, sometime after his older brother William Norman Dickens enlisted there. Paul was my great-great uncle on my father's side of my family. After the war, he married, had four children, and died in 1893.
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Contact Name:
Mona K. Dickens Gasaway
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Date Added: 8/12/2008
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Company K
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James Richard Dickinson - 1st Lieutenant
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Enlisted on July 9, 1861 initially in Co. D. Later transfered to Co. K. Lost right arm as a result of gunshot wound at Battle of Fredricksburg on Dec. 13, 1862. Later served as an 'Enrolling Officer', and in 1864 he became a member of the 'President's Guard' stationed at the President's Mansion in Richmond, by that time composed of men who had lost an arm in service. According to his obituary he accompanied President Davis when Richmond was evacuated. J.R. Dickinson spent his last years at the Lee Camp Soldiers Home in Richmond. He died on July 31, 1917 and is buried in the Confederate Section of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
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