stringtranslate.com

4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

Wagoner John M. Moore of Co. K, 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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

Service

The 4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was mustered into service at Ottawa, Illinois, on September 26, 1861. It was consolidated with 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment on June 14, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 1 officer and 31 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 166 enlisted men from disease, for a total of 199 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav1.htm#4th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  2. ^ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav004-fs.htm Illinois in the Cvil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References