In acknowledging the valuable assistance to the Union cause rendered by these hundred day regiments the President said in an Executive order:
“It was their good fortune to render efficient service in the brilliant operations in the Southwest and to contribute to the victories of the National arms over the Rebels in Georgia, under the command of Johnston and Hood. On all occasions and in every service to which they were assigned, their duty as patriotic volunteers was performed with alacrity and courage, for which they are entitled to and are hereby tendered the National thanks.”
The Forty-seventh was sent to Helena, Arkansas, where many were stricken with disease and died in hospitals or soon after reaching their homes. The battalion of the Forty-eighth was sent to Rock Island to guard the Confederate prisoners stationed at that place. These regiments lost ninety-four men during their short term of services, nearly all of whom died from disease.
