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=====47th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry=====
{{Main|47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment}}
On August 5, 1861, [[Andrew Gregg Curtin]], the Civil War-era [[Governor of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania governor]], granted Tilghman H. Good authority to create the [[47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment]], a new unit commonly known as the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers.<ref>[https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/officers/roster-field-and-staff-officers-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/colonel-tilghman-h-good/ "Colonel Tilghman H. Good,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705073151/https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/officers/roster-field-and-staff-officers-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/colonel-tilghman-h-good/ |date=July 5, 2022 }} ''47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story'', 2014.</ref> Good secured the assistance of William H. Gausler of Allentown, who was commissioned as a major with the regiment's central command staff, and [[John P. S. Gobin|John Peter Shindel Gobin]], a senior officer with Sunbury Guards in [[Northumberland County, Pennsylvania|Northumberland County]], who was repeatedly cited for valor and was promoted to colonel and ultimately as commanding officer of the regiment.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates. |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ABY3439.0001.001/1172?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=1150 |website=quod.lib.umich.edu |access-date=January 22, 2016 |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127141334/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ABY3439.0001.001/1172?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=1150 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>"[https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/officers/roster-field-and-staff-officers-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/the-honorable-john-peter-shindel-gobin/ The Honorable John Peter Shindel Gobin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112070013/https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/officers/roster-field-and-staff-officers-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/the-honorable-john-peter-shindel-gobin/ |date=January 12, 2023 }}," in ''47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story'', 2015.</ref> Companies A and E of the regiment were recruited primarily from Easton and Northampton County; Companies B, G, I, and K were largely recruited from Allentown; Company C was recruited from Northumberland and [[Juniata County, Pennsylvania|Juniata]] counties; Company F was primarily composed of men from the Allentown suburb of [[Catasauqua, Pennsylvania|Catasaqua]]; and Companies D and H were recruited from [[Perry County, Pennsylvania|Perry County]]. The 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers achieved Union victories at the [[Battle of St. Johns Bluff]] in Florida (October 1–3, 1862) before suffering a costly defeat in the [[Second Battle of Pocotaligo]] in South Carolina (October 21–23, 1862). They were the only Pennsylvania regiment to fight in the [[Union army]]'s [[Red River campaign]] across [[Louisiana]] in 1864.<ref>"[https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/2016/04/09/red-river-campaign-louisiana-march-to-may-1864/ Red River Campaign (Louisiana, March to June 1864)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112070018/https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/2016/04/09/red-river-campaign-louisiana-march-to-may-1864/ |date=January 12, 2023 }}," in ''47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story'', 2014.</ref>

While sustaining numerous casualties during the Red River campaign, the 47th Pennsylvania helped [[Turning point of the American Civil War|turn the Civil War]] in the Union's favor, contributing to influential military victories in [[Philip Sheridan|General Sheridan's]] [[Valley campaigns of 1864|1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign]] across Virginia, including in the Battles of [[Battle of Berryville|Berryville]], [[Third Battle of Winchester|Opequan]], [[Battle of Fisher's Hill|Fisher's Hill]], and [[Battle of Cedar Creek|Cedar Creek]], and then again contributing to the nation's defense following [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln's assassination]] on April 15, 1865.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=About the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers |url=https://47thpennsylvania.wordpress.com/about/ |website=47th Pennsylvania Volunteers |access-date=January 22, 2016 |language=en-US |date=May 25, 2014 |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127040008/https://47thpennsylvania.wordpress.com/about/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A Civil War history of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers: the wrong place at the wrong time |publisher=L.G. Schmidt |date=1986 |location=Allentown |first=Lewis G |last=Schmidt |oclc=15166408}}</ref> Other known Union military units from Allentown included the 5th, 41st, [[128th Pennsylvania Infantry|128th]], and 176th Pennsylvania Infantries.<ref name="bicen" /><ref name="LCHS1" />

On October 19, 1899, Allentown erected and dedicated Soldiers and Sailors Monument, at Hamilton and S. 7th streets in [[Center City Allentown|Center City]], where it still stands,  in honor of these Union soldiers from Allentown and local Lehigh Valley towns and boroughs who were killed in defense of the Union during the Civil War.<ref name="bicen"/><ref name="LCHS1"/><ref>[http://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/soldiers-and-sailors-monument-saluting-lehigh-county-veterans-for-over-100-years/16493218 "Soldiers and Sailors Monument Saluting Lehigh County for over 100 years," WFMZ, July 12, 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111005836/http://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/soldiers-and-sailors-monument-saluting-lehigh-county-veterans-for-over-100-years/16493218 |date=January 11, 2017 }}, retrieved January 10, 2016.</ref>