The Fourth Rhode Island Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 67 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Providence |
October 2 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
October - November |
At Camp Casey attached to Casey's Provisional Division, Army Potomac |
October 30 |
Mustered in |
November 28 |
At Camp California attached to Howard's Brigade, Sumner's Division, Army of the Potomac |
December 14 |
At Edsall's Hill, Defences of Washington, D.C. assigned to Parke's 3rd Brigade, Burnside's Expeditionary Corps |
1862 |
January 3 |
Moved to Annapolis, Md. |
January 7-
February 8 |
Burnside's Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C. |
February 9 |
Battle of Roanoke Island |
February |
Duty at Roanoke Island |
March 11-13 |
Advance on New Berne |
March 14 |
Battle of New Berne |
March 23-April 26 |
Siege of Fort Macon. Atached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
April 25-26 |
Bombardment and capture of Fort Macon |
May-June |
Duty at Beaufort and New Berne |
July 6-8 |
Moved to Newport News, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
August 3-6 |
To Fredericksburg |
August 31-September 3 |
Moved to Brook's Station, then to Washington, D.C. |
September |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Antietam |
September-October |
Duty in Pleasant Valley, Md. |
October 30-November 19 |
Advance to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863 |
January |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February 8 |
Moved to Newport News, Va. |
March 13 |
To Suffolk |
April 12-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
May 4 |
Nansemond River |
une 9-13 |
Reconnoissance to the Chickahominy |
June 24-July 8 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign, attached to 3rd Brigade, Getty's Division at Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
July 1-7 |
Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July |
Duty at Portsmouth |
1864 |
January |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, Heckman's Division, Portsmouth, Va. |
March 1 |
At Norfolk |
April 1 |
At Point Lookout, Md., guarding prisoners. Attached to District of St. Mary's Point, Lookout, Md. |
July 16 |
Ordered to Petersburg, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
July to October |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
October 15 |
Old members mustered out. Veterans and Recruits consolidated with 7th Rhode Island Infantry. |
