147th REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

Note: HTML format added to aid digestion.--if you remove the format you have Dyer's original text [He didn't use complete sentences].

147th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Camp Fry, Chicago, Ill., for 1 year February 18, 1865.
• Moved to Louisville, Ky.,
• thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 21-25, and
• to Chattanooga, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga., February 27-28.

• Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.
• Dept. of Georgia to January, 1866.

• Duty at Dalton, Ga., and
• operating against guerrillas till May 1, 1865.
  • Expedition to Mill Creek March 14-16.
  • Action near Dalton March 14.
  • Expedition to Spring Place March 20-22, and
• to Ringgold March 28-29.
• Moved to Resaca May 1-2,
• thence to Calhoun June 26,
• to Dalton July 2-3.
• To Marietta, Macon and Albany July 27-31.
• Duty there and at Americus and Smithville till November.
• Moved to Macon and Hawkinsville November 4-6,
• thence to Savannah November 26-December 3.
• (Cos. "F" and "I" at Hawkinsville till November 28. Joined Regiment at Savannah December 6.)
• Duty at Savannah till January 23, 1866.
• Mustered out January 20, 1866.
• Moved to Springfield, Ill., January 23-31.
• Discharged February 8, 1866.

Regiment lost during service

• 3 Enlisted men killed and
• 31 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 34.

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