United States Regiments & Batteries > Maryland > 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment


The 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 32 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 72 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It was calculated that it marched 1,089 miles and traveled 649 miles by rail.

1862
July – August Eight companies were organized at Baltimore, Maryland. Company E was organized in Carroll County. The regiment would muster in only nine companies.
September 18 The 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment left Baltimore for the Sharpsburg, Maryland. Attached to Kenly’s Maryland Brigade, Defenses of the Upper Potomac, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. The regiment would remain part of the Maryland Brigade throughout the war.
September 20-21 Defense of Williamsport, Maryland.
September-December Duty between Williamsport and Hagerstown
October 9 Captain William J. L. Nicodemus USA, former Acting AAG of the Department of New Mexico, was appointed colonel and given command of the 4th Maryland.
November 17 Colonel Nicodemus resigned for “private reasons” to become a major in the U.S. Signal Corps.
December 11-12 Moved to Maryland Heights, overlooking Harpers Ferry.
1863
March Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Corps
April 4 Richard N. Bowerman was appointed colonel.
April 9 At Bolivar Heights
April 30-May 1 Moved to Grafton and Clarksburg, West Virginia to repel invasion.
May 1-26 Operations against Jones and Imboden
May 26 Reported at Maryland Heights
June Attached to Maryland Brigade, French’s Division, 8th Corps
June 30 Retreat to Frederick, Maryland and guarded bridges on the Monocacy
July 7 Reoccupation of Maryland Heights after a forced march and a brisk fight.
July 10 Joined 1st Army Corps near Boonsborough, Maryland attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac
July 12-24 Pursuit of Lee to Warrenton, Va.
July 25-27 At Warrenton Junction
August 4 Near Rappahannock Station
September 16-18 Advance to the Rapidan
October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 14

Bristoe Station

October 19 Haymarket
October 24-November 23 Guard Orange & Alexandria Railroad
November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

December Duty near Culpeper attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps
1864
February 6-7 Demonstration on the Rapidan
March Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Corps
May 3-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8

Laurel Hill

The Maryland Brigade lost 189 men in the attack on Laurel Hill. It is honored there by the Maryland Brigade monument.

May 8-21

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 19

Harris Farm (Fredericksburg Road)

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23
Jericho Ford
May 26-28 On line of the Pamunkey
May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps
June 1-3 Bethesda Church
June 16-18

First Assault on Petersburg

June 16

Siege of Petersburg begins

June 22-24

Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve)

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September 29-October 2

Poplar Grove Church

October 2-5 Yellow House
October 7-8

Peeble’s Farm

October 8 Davis House
October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run

December 7-12

Warren’s Raid on Weldon Railroad

1865

February 5-7

Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

March 29-31

Boydton Plank Road and White Oak Road

April 1

Five Forks

Colonel Boweman was wounded.

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 3-9 Pursuit of Lee
April 9

Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.

May 1-12 March to Washington, D.C.
May 23 Grand Review
May 31 Mustered out