The 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an

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that served in the

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. 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

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, and a maroon zouave

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with a light blue tassel.

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 politician

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and

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Alfred E. Bates, who enlisted as

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s 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.

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.

Commanders

*Colonel Dwight A. Woodbury, killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862 *

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Harrison Jeffords, killed at the

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*Colonel Jonathan W. Childs Antietam *Colonel George W. Lumbard, died on May 6, 1864, from the wounds he received in action on the previous day at Wilderness, Virginia.

4th Michigan Soldiers

File:Col Harrison H. Jeffords.jpg, Colonel Harrison H. Jeffords File:William Ward Duffield.jpg, Lt Col. William Ward Duffield File:Lieut. Parker, Commissary Officer, 4th Michigan Volunteers - NARA - 529467.tif, Lt Parker and 4th Mich Soldiers File:Group of 4th Infantry, Mich - NARA - 529543.jpg File:Group of 4th Michigan Infantry - NARA - 529469.jpg File:Lieut. C. Walrey, Co. "D" - NARA - 529456.tif File:Band 4th Infantry, Michigan - NARA - 529553.jpg, Band of the 4th Michigan Infantry File:Group of 4th Infantry, Mich - NARA - 529448.jpg File:Group of 4th Infantry, Michigan - NARA - 529568.jpg File:Tent No. 8, Co. "F" 4th Infantry, Mich - NARA - 529604 (cropped).jpg, Company "F", 4th Infantry photographed by Mathew Brady File:The Photographic History of The Civil War Volume 08 Page 079.jpg, Richard Cramer Company I 4th Michigan Infantry. See.Library of Congress
/ref> File:The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14739784456).jpg, Soldiers from the West in the 4th infantry photographed by Mathew Brady

References

External links

The Fourth Michigan Infantry websiteThe monument to the Fourth Michigan Volunteers at Gettysburg
Units and formations of the Union Army from Michigan 1861 establishments in Michigan Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1864 {{AmericanCivilWar-unit-stub