The 47th Indiana Infantry was organized at Anderson and Logansport, Indiana November 2 through December 13, 1861, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel James Richard Slack.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of the Tennessee, to January 1863.
1st Brigade, 12th Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to February 1863.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to December 1864.
The 47th Indiana Infantry mustered out of service October 23, 1865, and discharged November 2, 1865, at Indianapolis.