Service
The 47th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa, and mustered in for one-hundred days Federal service on June 4, 1864 as part of a plan to raise short term regiments for service as rear area garrison duty to release veteran troops for Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. The 47th Iowa garrisoned strategic points in the District of Arkansas.
The regiment was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, on September 28, 1864.
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