4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 4th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 4th Michigan wore a very Americanized zouave uniform. This uniform consisted of a Federal dark blue 4 button sack coat, dark blue chasseur trousers, tan gaiters, and a maroon zouave fez with a light blue tassel.

4th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Michigan state flag
Active	June 20, 1861, to June 30, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	First Battle of Bull Run Peninsular Campaign Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Chantilly Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Battle of the Wilderness Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Battle of Cold Harbor

Service

The 4th Michigan Infantry was organized at Adrian, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on June 20, 1861. The regiment's first lieutenant colonel was a future prominent politician and civil engineer, William Ward Duffield. Several other soldiers in the regiment reached post-war prominence, including state politician George Spalding, who enlisted as a private in Company A.

The regiment was mustered out on June 30, 1864. The regiment's veterans and recruits were assigned to the 1st Michigan Infantry.The Fourth Michigan Infantry was reorganized under orders of July 26, 1864 and mustered into Federal service as a regiment on October 14, 1864. On May 26, 1866, the regiment was mustered out of service in Houston, Texas.[1]

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 12 officers and 177 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 107 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 297 fatalities.[2]

Commanders

• Colonel Dwight A. Woodbury, killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862
• Colonel Harrison Jeffords, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Colonel Jonathan W. Childs Antietam

4th Michigan Soldiers

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  Colonel Harrison H. Jeffords
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  Lt Col. William Ward Duffield
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  Lt Parker and 4th Mich Soldiers
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  Lieut C. Walrey Co D 4th Michigan
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  Band of the 4th Michigan Infantry
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  Company "F", 4th Infantry photographed by Mathew Brady
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  Richard Cramer Company I 4th Michigan Infantry. See.[3]
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  Soldiers from the West in the 4th infantry photographed by Mathew Brady

See also

• List of Michigan Civil War Units
• Michigan in the American Civil War

References

1. History of the 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment
2. Union Regimental Information Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, The Civil War Archive
3. Library of Congress

Further reading

• Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
• Barrett, Orvey S. Reminiscences, Incidents, Battles, Marches and Camp Life of the Old 4th Michigan Infantry in War of Rebellion, 1861 to 1864. Detroit, Michigan: W.S. Ostler, 1888.
• Bertera, Martin. The 4th Michigan Infantry at the Battle of New Bridge, Virginia. Wyandotte. Michigan: M. Bertera, 2002.
• Bertera, Martin N, and Kim Crawford. The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010.
• Turner, George H. Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865; Record of Fourth Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1993.

External links

• The Civil War Archive
• The Fourth Michigan Infantry website
• The monument to the Fourth Michigan Volunteers at Gettysburg