Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 888 FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY. SWEITZER'S BRIGADE — GRIFFIN'S DIVISION- FIFTH CORPS. (1) COL. DWIQIIT A. WOODBUKY (Killed). (3) COL. IIAKKISON II. JEFFORDS (Killed). (8) COL. JONATHAN W CHILDS. (4) COL. (JEOKUE W. LOMIiAKD (Killed). (5) COL. JAIKVS W. HALL; BVT. BKIU.-GEN. 189 killed — 14.2 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 632 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 35. BATTLES. K.&M.W. Gettysburg, Pa 40 Wilderness, Va 12 Spotsylvania, Va i o North Anna, Va 2 Totopotomoy, Va 2 Bethesda Church, Va 6 Petersburg, Va 4 Picket, Va., Aug. 30, 1862 i In Belle Isle Prison, Va. (killed) i BATTLES. K.&M.W. Hall's Hill, Va i Yorktown, Va 2 Newbridge, Va 3 Mechanicsville, Va 4 Gaines's Mill, Va 23 Malvern Hill, Va 54 Turkey Creek, Va i Shepherdstown Ford, Va i Fredericksburg, Va 14 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 fol lowing 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 casual ties 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. _10957
