Immigrants and First Generation Americans Who Enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers for U.S. Civil War Military Service (abridged list)

Cuba and Spain:

  • Diaz, John (Private, Company I; a native of Spain’s Canary Islands)
  • Guera/Guerra, Emanuel (Private, Company H; a native of Cuba)
  • Pérez, Rafael/Raphael (Private, Company C; a native of Cuba)

Denmark, Germany and Switzerland:

  • Allenpach/Allenspach, Frank (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Amend, Vallentine (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Assenheimer, Godfrey (Private, Company B; a native of Germany)
  • Bankhard/Benkhardt, Hyppolite (Private and Musician, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Bankhard/Benkhardt, Julius F. (Private and Musician, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Battaglia, Daniel (Private, Company A; a native of Switzerland)
  • Berner, Louis (Corporal, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Betz, Godfrey (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Bischoff/Bishof, John (Sergeant, Company K; a native of Switzerland)
  • Bohner, Philip H. (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Bornschier, Michael (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Boyer, Faustin (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Brahler, Bernhard (Sergeant, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Brecht, William (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Bush, Anton Benjamin (Bandmaster, Regimental Band No. 2 and Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Cohler/Kohler, Jacob (Corporal, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Cohler/Kohler, John Michael (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Dachrodt, Daniel Lewis (Musician, Principal Musician and Drum Major; a first-generation American who was a son of a German immigrant)
  • Daeufer, Francis (Corporal, Company I; a native of Germany
  • Datzius/Detzius, Philip W. (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Daub, Jacob (Drummer, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Daub, William J. (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Dessing, Michael (Corporal, Company C; a native of Germany)
  • Eagle, Augustus G. (Second Lieutenant, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Eagle, Frederick M. (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Eppler, Martin (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Erbe, Werner (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Faber, Allen (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Fischer, Ferdinand J. (Private, Company G; a native of Germany)
  • Goltz, Hugo (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Graeffe, Richard A. (Captain, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Harte, Henry Samuel (Captain, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Hensler, William (Corporal, Company G; a first-generation American who was a son and younger sibling of German immigrants
  • Hiller, Gottlieb Albert (Private, Company I; a first-generation American who was a son of a German immigrant)
  • Hoffman, Nicholas (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Junker, George (Captain, Company K, founder of this “all-German company” and a native of Germany)
  • Kageley, Frederick (Corporal, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • King, Charles (Private; Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Kolb, Hiram (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Kolb, John (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Koldhoff/Koltthoff, John (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Krapf/Kropf/Kraff, Xaver (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Krauss, Anthony (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Kronenbitter, John (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Kuhn, Nicholas (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Landrock, Julius (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Lightfoot, George W. (Private, Company G; a native of Germany)
  • Matter, Jacob (Private, Company K; a native of Switzerland)
  • Matter, Samuel (Private, Company K; a native of Switzerland)
  • Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E; a first-generation American who was a son of a German immigrant)
  • Metzger, Philip (Private, Company B; a native of Switzerland)
  • Meyers, Frederick (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Mildenberger, Francis (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Miller, Louis (Private, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Muhl, John (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Münch, Martin (Private, Company K,  a native of Germany)
  • Newman, Edward (Private, Company H; a native of Germany)
  • Peterson, John (Private, Company E; a native of Denmark)
  • Petre, Jacob (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Reeder, Daniel (Corporal, Company H; a first-generation American who was a son of a German immigrant)
  • Reiber, M.D., William F. (Assistant Surgeon; a first-generation American who was a son of a German immigrant)
  • Reinhard, Christian (Private, Company B; a native of Germany)
  • Reinmiller, Peter (Sergeant, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Reiser, Nicholas (Second Lieutenant, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Schimpf, Sr., John/Johannes Gottlieb (Private, Company G; a native of Germany)
  • Schmidt, Bartholomew/Barclay (Private, Company B; a native of Germany)
  • Schweitzer, Gottlieb (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Schwentzer, Franz (Musician, Regimental Band; a native of Germany)
  • Schwenzer, Peter (Musician, Regimental Band; a native of Germany)
  • Siegfeld, Charles W. (Private, Company B; a native of Germany)
  • Simons, Frank (Private, Company E; a native of Germany)
  • Slemmer, Max (Corporal, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Smith, Albert G (Private, Company D; a native of Germany)
  • Stein, Sr., John Henry (First Lieutenant, Company A, a native of Germany)
  • Tag, John G. (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Troell/Troxell, John H. (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Ungerer, Christian (Private, Company B; a native of Germany)
  • Volkenand, Conrad J. (Sergeant-Major, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Weidenbach, Christian L. (Corporal, Company K; a native of Germany)
  • Weidknecht, Charles (Private, Company A; a native of Germany)
  • Wipke, William (Private, Company I; a native of Germany)
  • Wolf, Henry (Private, Company C; a native of Germany)
  • Worley, John (Private, Company F; a native of Germany)
  • Zeppenfeld, Heinrich (Private, Company G; a native of Germany)

England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales:

  • Andrews, David (Private, Company F; a native of Ireland)
  • Burke, Thomas N. (Sergeant, Company I; a first-generation American who was a son of a native of Ireland)
  • Cahill, William R. (Sergeant, Company E; a native of Ireland)
  • Collins, William (Private, Company D; a native of Ireland)
  • Ellis, William (Private, Company I; a native of Ireland)
  • Fitzgibbon, Michael (Corporal, Company I; a native of Ireland)
  • Guptill, William H. (Private, Company G; a native of Scotland)
  • Jordan, Anthony (Private, Company D; a native of Ireland)
  • Larkin, Michael F. (Private, Company C; a first-generation American whose parents were natives of Ireland)
  • Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E; a native of Ireland)
  • Mathews, Edward (Private, Company C; a native of Ireland)
  • McBride, Lawrence (Private, Company F; a native of Ireland)
  • McCape, Sylvester (Private, Company I; a native of Ireland)
  • McKibbin, Robert (Private, Company H; a first-generation American who was a son of a native of Scotland)
  • Pratt, John (Private, Company G; a first-generation American who was a son of natives of England)
  • Prothero, Frederick (Private, Company D; a native of Wales)
  • Porter, Robert (Private, Company D; a native of Ireland)
  • Richards, Jenkin J. (Private, Company E; a native of Wales)
  • Smith, Thomas (Private, Company H; a native of England
  • Thompson, David (Private, Company H; a native of Ireland)
  • Webster, John Eyres (Private, Company E; a native of England)
  • White, Wesley M. (Private, Company D; a first-generation American who was a son of natives of Ireland)
  • Wright, Thomas (Private, Company D; a native of Ireland)

France:

  • Weisbach, Frederick C. (Private, Company G; a native of France)