4th Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

The 4th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

4th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry
ActiveAugust 22, 1863, to May 2, 1866
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
  • Mobile Campaign
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Col. Joseph Bailey

Service

The 4th Wisconsin Cavalry was originally organized as the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Racine, Wisconsin, on July 2, 1862. The regiment was redesignated the 4th Wisconsins Cavalry on August 22, 1863.

The regiment mustered out of Federal service at Brownsville, Texas, on May 2, 1866, and disbanded at Madison, Wisconsin, on June 19, 1866.

Total strength and casualties

The 4th Wisconsin Cavalry initially recruited 1,047 officers and men. An additional 998 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 2,045 men.[1]

The regiment suffered 11 officers and 106 enlisted men killed or died from wounds in action, and 3 officers and 311 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 431 fatalities.[2]

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See also

Notes
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, WI 1907
  2. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwicav.htm#4thcav The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

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