47TH REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
COMPANY G- "TATTNALL INVINCIBLES"
and
COMPANY K- "CONE'S COMPANY" (BULLOCH)
Several companies converged in Chatham County near Savannah to be assigned to the 11th Battalion Georgia Infantry on March 4, 1862, which ceased to exist when the 47th Regiment was organized May 12, 1862.
The "Bulloch Guards" (Company C) became a part of the 47th at the same time. The "Tattnall Invincibles" formed in Tattnall County in March of 1862, became Company G. "Cone's Company" (Company K) had been a part of the State Troop organized in October November of 1861.
The 47th Regiment served on the Georgia coast until May of 1862 when they were ordered to move to Charleston. On June 10, 1862, they fought their first battle on James Island in which Captain Cone, with a combined detachment of men from Companies C, G, and K, was ordered to drive through enemy lines to determine their position. The action was extremely bloody, forty of the seventy men being killed or wounded. The rest of the regiment received their "baptism of fire" on the island at Fort Lamar on June 16, 1862.
The regiment did duty on the coast of North Carolina during the winter of 1862-63.
In May 1863, they were ordered to the relief of Vicksburg, Mississippi, becoming a part of Gen. John C. Breckenridge's division of Joe Johnston's Army. In August of 1863 the regiment reported to Gen. Braxton Bragg at Chattanooga, becoming part of the Army of Tennessee. They fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Tanner's Ferry, Calhoun Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Franklin, and River's Bridge, South Carolina. Captain Phillip G. Tippins was the first company commander and Captain Daniel L. Kennedy commanded the company later. The remnants of this regiment were reorganized and became Company H, First Georgia Regulars. The company was surrendered to Union General William T. Sherman in Greensboro, North Carolina, (on or about April 26, 1865) given $1.16 per soldier and walked home.