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Fourth Michigan Infantry.
Sweitzer's Brigade —
Griffin's Division--Fifth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 3 | | 3 | | | | 19 |
| Company | A | 1 | 25 | 26 | | 9 | 9 | 134 |
| | B | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 9 | 9 | 132 |
| | C | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 17 | 17 | 134 |
| | D | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 6 | 6 | 116 |
| | E | | 15 | 15 | | 6 | 6 | 137 |
| | F | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 16 | 16 | 138 |
| | G | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 9 | 9 | 127 |
| | H | | 18 | 18 | | 14 | 14 | 134 |
| | I | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 12 | 12 | 128 |
| | K | | 12 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 126 |
| Totals | 12 | 177 | 189 | 1 | 107 | 108 | 1,325 |
189 killed == 14.2 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 632; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 35.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Hall's Hill, Va. | 1 | Gettysburg, Pa. | 40 |
| Yorktown, Va. | 2 | Wilderness, Va. | 12 |
| Newbridge, Va. | 3 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 10 |
| Mechanicsville, Va. | 4 | North Anna, Va. | 2 |
| Gaines's Mill, Va. | 23 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 2 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 54 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 6 |
| Turkey Creek, Va. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. | 4 |
| Shepherdstown Ford, Va. | 1 | Picket, Va., Aug. 30, 1862 | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 14 | In Belle Isle Prison, Va. (killed) | 1 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 8 | | |
Present, also, at Hanover C. H.;
Manassas;
Antietam;
Mine Run; Rappahannock Station.
notes.--Organized at
Adrian, Mich., May 16, 1861, taking its departure from the
State on the 25th of June.
Proceeding to
Virginia it joined in the advance to
First Bull Run, but was not engaged there.
The following winter was spent in camp at
Miner's Hill, Va., moving in the early spring to the
Peninsula with the main army, where it was assigned to the Second Brigade (
Griffin's), First Division (
Morell's), Fifth Corps, in which it remained, with occasional change of commanders, during its entire service.
It encountered its first hard fighting at
Gaines's Mill, where it lost 15 killed, 41 wounded, and 32 missing; at
Malvern Hill, four days later, its casualties were 41 killed, 100 wounded, and 23 missing,--
Colonel Woodbury being among the killed.
At
Gettysburg the division was commanded by
General Barnes, and the brigade by
Colonel Sweitzer; the division fought there in the desperate contest in the wheatfield, the regiment losing 25 killed, 64 wounded, and 76 missing. The fighting at
Gettysburg was close; a Confederate officer who seized the flag of the Fourth was shot by
Colonel Jeffords, who, in turn, was bayoneted by a soldier and fell clinging to his colors; the soldier who ran him through went down, killed by a bullet from
Major Hall's revolver.
Colonel Lombard, who succeeded to the command of the regiment, lost his life at the
battle of the Wilderness.
At the
Wilderness and
Spotsylvania the casualties amounted to 10 killed, 62 wounded, and 8 missing; total, 80.
The regiment was mustered out on June 20, 1864, its term of service having expired.
