United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops
The 4th Regiment of United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 102 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 186 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1863
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July 15 -September 1 | Organized at Baltimore, Maryland |
October 1 | Moved to Fort Monroe, Virginia then moved to Yorktown, Virginia |
October-May | Duty at Yorktown attached to 2nd Brigade, United States Forces, Yorktown, Virginia, 18th Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
October 4-9 | Expedition from Yorktown to Matthews County |
1864
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February 6-8 | Wistar’s Expedition against Richmond |
February 8 | New Kent Court House |
March 1-4 | Expedition to Bottom’s Bridge in aid of Kilpatrick’s Cavalry |
March 9-12 | Expedition into King and Queen County |
March 17-21 | Expedition into Matthews and Middlesex Counties |
April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Hincks’ Colored Division, 18th Corps |
May 4-June 15 | Butler’s operations south of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 4 |
Skirmish at Bermuda Hundred |
May-June | Duty at Spring Hill on the Appomattox. Built Fort Converse on the Bermuda Hundred line. |
May 20 |
Attack on Fort Converse |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 – December 7 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Corps |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
September 7 |
Dutch Gap |
September 28-30 |
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
December 7-27 |
1st Expedition to Fort Fisher, North CarolinaAttached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps |
1865
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January 7-15 |
2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, North CarolinaAttached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
January 15 |
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C. |
January 19 |
Sugar Loaf Hill |
February 11 |
Sugar Loaf Battery |
February 18-20 |
Fort Anderson |
February 22 |
Capture of Wilmington |
February 22 |
Northeast Ferry |
March 1-April 26 |
Campaign of the CarolinasAttached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
March 6-21 | Advance on Goldsboro |
March 21 | Occupation of Goldsboro |
March 23-24 | Cox’s Bridge |
April 9-18 | Advance on Raleigh |
April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26 |
Bennett’s HouseSurrender of Johnston and his army. |
October-May | Assigned to the Northern Defenses of Washington under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Boernstein and Major Wareham C. Hill.
The regiment was stationed in: Fort Sumner: Companies A & I |
1866 |
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May-August | Assigned to the Dept. of North Carolina |