United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island
The 4th Rhode Island Volunteer 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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August-September | Organized at Providence under Colonel Justus I. McCarty and Lieutenant Colonel William H.P. Steere. |
October 2 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
October | At Camp Casey attached to Casey’s Provisional Division, Army Potomac |
October 30 | Mustered in under the command of Colonel Isaac P. Rodman after Colonel McCarty’s commission was revoked. |
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
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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 BerneAdjutant Joseph B. Curtis was wounded. |
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. Colonel Rodman returned to Rhode Island after contracting Typhoid Fever, leaving Lieutenant Colonel Steere in command of the regiment. |
May 16 | Colonel Rodman was promoted to brigadier general. |
June 12 | Lieutenant Colonel Steere was promoted to colonel and Major George W. Tew was promoted to lieutenant colonel. |
July 6-8 | Moved to Newport News, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
August | Lieutenant Colonel Tew resigned and Lieutenant Curtiss was promoted to lieutenant colonel. |
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 |
Battle of AntietamColonel Steere was wounded in the thigh while advancing from Burnside’s Bridge toward Sharpsburg. Lieutenant Colonel Curtis then took command of the regiment. The regiment lost 21 enlisted men killed, 5 officers and 72 enlisted men wounded, and 2 men missing. From the War Department marker to Harland’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield: On the morning of the 17th, Harland’s Brigade moved from its position southeast of Burnside Bridge. The 11th Connecticut, deployed as skirmishers, preceded Crook’s Brigade in its assault on the bridge and was repulsed with great loss. During the forenoon the remaining Regiments of the Brigade moved down the left bank of the Antietam, crossed at Snavely’s Ford and, moving up the right bank of the stream, formed line on the left of the Division, Ewing’s Ohio Brigade in support. At about 3 P.M., the Brigade advanced in the direction of Sharpsburg. The 8th Connecticut passed to the west of this point and the 16th Connecticut and 4th Rhode Island were in the 40 acre cornfield east, when they were attacked in flank by the right of A.P. Hill’s Division and compelled to retire to the cover of the high ground near the bridge. |
September- October |
Duty in Pleasant Valley, Maryland. After the battle Companies I & K were broken up and distributed to the other 8 companies in order to overcome the lack of company officers. |
October 30- November 19 |
Advance to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgLieutenant Colonel Curtiss was killed by a fragment from an artillery shell. |
1863
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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 |
May | Colonel Steere returned to the regiment, having recovered from his Antietam wound. |
June 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, Colonel Steere commanded the brigade as senior colonel. |
July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July | Duty at Portsmouth |
1864
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January | Attached to 3rd Brigade, Heckman’s Division, Portsmouth, Virginia |
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 under Colonel Steere. Veterans and Recruits consolidated with 7th Rhode Island Infantry. |