47th Tennessee Infantry, CSA Muster Rolls, Company H

Company H was enlisted in the vicinity of Kenton. Captain B. E. Holmes was appointed lieutenant colonel at Trenton, 16 December 1861. He was found incapable of discharging his duties on 1 August 1862.

OFFICERS:

• Captains: John A. Duncan, B. E. Holmes, W. H. Holoman
• First Lieutenant: S. H. Reeves
• Third Lieutenant: W. H. Holoman
• 2nd Lieutenant: M. S. Wilks
• First Sergeant: R. T. Jones
• Second Sergeant: J. E. Boyett
• Fourth Sergeant: G. W. Fentress
• Fifth Sergeant: S. H. Boyett
• First Corporal: J. A. Hurt (Hurt??)
• Third Corporal: A. Cannada

PRIVATES:

• J. B. S. Akin
• J. S. Algea
• A. Alphin (Alptum)
• B. M. Barton
• W. L. Biddie
• J. H. Biggs
• E. W. Boyett
• J. H. Boyett
• L. Boyett
• S. A. Boyett
• E. M. Brownlow (correction – Franklin Marion or F. M. Brownlow sent by Leland & Nancy Carter) 
• G. T. Brownlow
• H. C. Brownlow
• W. M. Bucie
• W. D. Buddix
• W. R. Cannada
• T. K. Carmen
• S. Cartwell
• J. C. Cathey
• J. W. Cherry
• A. S. Clark
• J. Collie
• T. H. Crain
• G. W. Doolin
• J. H. Duggin (Dugan)
• J. P. Duncan
• J. B. Edmison
• P. A. Ellington
• W. Elston
• A. S. Finch
• E. R. Flowers
• M. M. Flowers
• J. A. Fullerton
• J. F. Garrison
• A. V. Gilliam
• E. M. Gozah
• A. Grier
• D. T. Griffin (Grippin)
• P. H. Gunter
• L. W. Halford
• S. G. Halliburton
• J. E. Hanks
• P. L. Hanks
• A. T. Hargett
• I. S. Harris
• W. F. Holland
• J. M. Howell
• W. Howell
• D. B. Kerr
• E. T. King
• R. W. Locke
• T. J. London
• G. W. Lovett
• S. A. McKnight
• J. M. Miller
• H. Morrow
• H. C. Morrow
• J. W. S. Morrow
• John Nash
• J. W. Needham
• J. R. Orr
• J. Owens
• R. Parks
• T. J. Parr (Pace)
• W. Pettus
• W. F. Pitzer
• J. G. Porter
• J. J. Porter
• W. A. Porter
• H. B. Reed
• J. G. Reid
• J. J. Reid
• J. R. Roach
• J. W. Roberts
• J. A. Roy
• J. A. Rust
• R. Shaw
• A. L. Thomas
• J. F. Thomas
• J. Thompson
• P. L. Tilghman
• S. R. Tilghman
• W. B. Tilghman
• J. H. Tuck
• J. W. Tucker
• W. Tucker
• M. Waddy
• F. Ward
• R. D. Ward
• G. W. Webb
• J. Whitby (Whilley)
• W. H. Wilkes
• M. B. Worrell
• G. H. Wright

Organized at Camp Trenton, Dec. 1861 from companies of West Tennessee men enrolled in Nov. and Dec.; Was in Battle of Shiloh; reorganized 8 May 1862 as part of the 2nd Consolidated TN Inf. Reg. Co. D; in Gen. Kirby Smith’s invasion of KY and suffered many days of hard marching; present at the battle of Perryville, but possibly not engaged in fighting; battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta campaign and Johnston’s return to Tennessee, retreat to North Carolina; Captain James R. Oliver of I Company assumed command of the consolidated 11th, 12th, 13th, 29th, 47th, 50th, 52nd and 154th regiments in March of 1865; paroled at Greensboro NC 2 May 1865. Companies composed of Obion County Men: Co. A, Co. H, Co. I.