4th United States Artillery / Battery M

Regimental History and Service Record

January, 1862. Louisville, Ky. (united with Battery "H," February, 1862, to January, 1863), February, 1862. Attached to Artillery, 5th Division, Army Ohio, to May, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, Army Ohio, to September, 1862. 10th Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to January, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to October, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Division, Artillery Reserve, Dept. Cumberland, to October, 1864. Croxton's Cavalry Brigade to November, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 4th Army Corps, to February, 1865. Garrison Artillery, Bridgeport, Ala., to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-25, 1862, thence march to Savannah, Tenn., to reinforce Army Tennessee March 20-April 6.

• April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Bridge Creek near Corinth May 28. Tuscumbia Creek May 31. Buell's Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg to Loudon, Ky., October 1-22.

• October 8, 1862 - Battle of Perryville, Kentucky
• October 10-22 - Pursuit from Perryville to London, Kentucky

Danville October 11. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 22-November 9, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until August 16.

• August 16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign
  • September 19-September 20, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
• September 24-October 27, 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Battles of Chattanooga November 23-27. At Bridgeport, Ala., to March, 1864, and at Nashville, Tenn., until October, 1864. Attached to Croxton's Cavalry Brigade until November. Nashville Campaign November-December. Shoal Creek November 4. In front of Columbia November 24-27. Spring Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until February, 1865. Garrison Artillery at Bridgeport, Ala., until July.

• May 8-21, 1864 - Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia

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Regiment Statistical Information

• The 4th Regiment of Artillery lost during service Officers and 87 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 119 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 701, 733, 847, 860, 862, 934, 1706)