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The 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Dick Robinson and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel Speed Smith Fry. In February 1864, the regiment was reorganized at Lexington, Kentucky, as the 4th Regiment Kentucky Mounted Infantry. The regiment was attached to Thomas' Command ...
The three-years 4th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Dennison on June 4, 1861. After a few days of training and drilling, it moved to Grafton, Virginia (now West Virginia) on June 20–23, where it was attached to Alexander M. McCook 's Advance Brigade, West Virginia, until July. As part of the 3rd Brigade, Army of Occupation, the regiment ...
In 1917, the United States entered World War I. On 1 October 1917, the Fourth was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division. Stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, the regiment recruited and trained up to strength and on the first anniversary of the American entry into the war, left for France.
274.3 cm × 457.2 cm (108 in × 180 in) Location. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., U.S. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter. In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his Cabinet members ...
1 schooner captured. The Union revenue cutter USRC Caleb Cushing was captured and scuttled by the Confederates during the battle. The Battle of Portland Harbor was an incident during the American Civil War, in June 1863, in the waters off Portland, Maine. Two civilian ships engaged two vessels under Confederate States Navy employment.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Maryland Campaign September 6–22. Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16–17. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12–15. At Falmouth until April 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations at Pollock's Mill Crossing April 29-May 2. Battle of Chancellorsville May 2–5.
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