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47th Virginia Infantry      
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John Dickerson - Private   
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Contact Name:  JENNIFER BUSTILLO
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Date Added:  5/23/2016
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George J. Roberson - Unknown   
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
Contact Name:  Sam Roberson
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Date Added:  10/24/2014
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William C Shilling - Unknown   
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Contact Name:  Kathie Trent Kingery
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Date Added:  12/31/2010
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wiley wright - Private   
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Contact Name:  danny r wright
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Date Added:  12/6/2009
Company A
Tomlin Barnes - Unknown   
He is not a relative but is in a cemetary of the house that we own.
Contact Name:  Chris Gulluscio
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Contact Homepage:  historicivycliff.com
Date Added:  1/22/2008
Company A
Littleton C Fleming - Private   
looking for any photos of this unit. I am trying to create a uniform to resemble this my relative.
Contact Name:  Brian Spears
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Date Added:  9/7/2010
Company A
Littleton C Fleming - Private   
Littleton enlisted under the name L.C. Flemming
Contact Name:  Barbara Spears
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Date Added:  9/7/2010
Company A
Cornelius Saunders Lucas - Other   
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.
Contact Name:  Jeff Smith
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Date Added:  4/24/2007
Company A
Aitcheson Pollock - Lieutenant   
He was William G Smith's brother, and resigned from the Army in the reorganization of 1862. He was my second great grandfather.
Contact Name:  Jeff Smith
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Date Added:  4/24/2007
Company A
William G. Pollock - Captain   
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.
Contact Name:  Jeff Smith
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Date Added:  4/24/2007
Company A
Wist/Wirt Smith - Private   
Wirt in census, Wist in Civil War records.
Contact Name:  Nan Krushinski
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Date Added:  8/26/2009
Company B
Alonzo B Cleaves - Sergeant   
Born 1843, Shiloh, King George County,VA
Contact Name:  Dennis Matteo S.C.V.
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Date Added:  12/9/2010
Company C
George Lindsey Sanford - Corporal   
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
Contact Name:  John Davis
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Date Added:  11/26/2005
Company C
Thomas V Sanford - Captain   
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
Contact Name:  John Davis
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Date Added:  6/24/2019
Company C
William P Sanford - Private   
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
Contact Name:  John Davis
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Date Added:  6/24/2019
Company E
Peter A Gravatt - Private   
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.
Contact Name:  Robert Jones
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Date Added:  1/25/2010
Company E
Cornelius C Rose - Private   
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.
Contact Name:  DeeDee Reed
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Date Added:  3/26/2012
Company G
Andrew Jackson Gravatt - Sergeant   
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Contact Name:  Robert Jones
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Date Added:  3/27/2009
Company G
George Washington Marshall - Lieutenant   
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Contact Name:  Robert Jones
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Date Added:  3/29/2009
Company H
Edmond Dillard - Private   
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Contact Name:  Allen Glanville
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Date Added:  3/29/2016
Company H
James F. Durvin - Private   
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.
Contact Name:  Bill Durvin
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Date Added:  3/10/2012
Company H
Charles Littleton Flippo - 1st Lieutenant   
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Contact Name:  Stephen Moyers Woodard
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Contact Homepage:  GivemTha Cold Steel Boys
Date Added:  1/26/2011
Company H
Major French Flippo - Private   
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Contact Name:  Stephen Moyers Woodard
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Contact Homepage:  Givem Tha Cold Steel Boys
Date Added:  1/26/2011
Company H
Cornelius Gravatt - Private   
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.
Contact Name:  Robert Jones
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Date Added:  1/25/2010
Company H
WILLIAM TOLIVER HART - Private   
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Contact Name:  EDDIE STECKLER
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Date Added:  1/25/2008
Company H
George M. Henshaw - Private   
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Contact Name:  Melissa Kennedy
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Date Added:  10/2/2007
Company H
William Franklin Lewis - Private   
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Contact Name:  Pamela Fischer
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Date Added:  1/13/2011
Company H
Henry Alexander Samuel - Private   
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Contact Name:  Bob Julian
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Date Added:  3/10/2011
Company H
Pichegru Southworth - Private   
enlisted March 25 1862
Contact Name:  Charles pitts
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Date Added:  4/22/2015
Company K
Andrew J Barker - Private   
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.
Contact Name:  Denise Barker
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Date Added:  7/12/2010
Company K
Paul J. Dickens - Sergeant   
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.
Contact Name:  Mona K. Dickens Gasaway
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Date Added:  8/12/2008
Company K
James Richard Dickinson - 1st Lieutenant   
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.
Contact Name:  Hal Fleming
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Date Added:  7/5/2010
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