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4TH REGIMENT - Kentucky Cavalry
Volunteers
- Organized at Louisville, Ky., December
24, 1861.
- Moved to Bardstown, Ky., January 6, 1862,
and duty there until March. Unattached Cavalry,
Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862.
- 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army Ohio,
to October, 1862.
- District of Louisville, Ky., Dept. Ohio,
to November, 1862.
- District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of
the Ohio, to January, 1863.
- 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army
of the Cumberland, to July, 1863.
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, to November, 1864.
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps,
Military Division Mississippi, to January, 1865.
- 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps,
Military Division Mississippi, to August,
1865.
SERVICE
- Moved from Bardstown, Ky., to Nashville,
Tenn., March 26, 1862,
- thence to Wartrace, Tenn., April 8, and
duty in that vicinity until July.
- Action at Lebanon May 5.
- Readyville June 7.
- Rankin's Ferry near Jasper June 18.
- Shell Mountain June 21.
- Battle Creek June 21 and July 5.
- Murfreesboro July 13 (4 Cos.).
- Moved to Tullahoma July 13, and duty
there until August.
- Sparta August 4 (Detachment).
- Raid on Louisville &
- Nashville Railroad August 19-21
(Detachment).
- March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of
Bragg August 22-September 26.
- Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October
1-22.
- Near Perryville October 6-7.
- Near Mountain Gap October 14 and 16.
- Duty on southern, border of Kentucky
until February, 1863.
- Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., February 9,
1863
- thence to Murfreesboro and Franklin,
Tenn.
- Expedition to Spring Hill March 4-5.
- Franklin March 4.
- Thompson's Station, Spring Hill, March 5.
- Expedition from Franklin to Columbia
March 8-12.
- Thompson's Station March 9.
- Rutherford Creek March 10-11.
- Spring Hill March 19.
- Near Thompson's Station March 23.
- Little Harpeth March 25.
- Near Franklin March 31.
- Thompson's Station May 2.
- Franklin June 4.
- Triune June 9.
- Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign
June 23-July 7.
- Uniontown and Rover June 23.
- Middleton June 24.
- Fosterville, Guy's Gap and Shelbyville
June 27.
- Expedition to Huntsville July 13-22.
- Passage of Cumberland Mountains and
Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.)
- Campaign August 16-September 22.
- Maysville, Ala., August 21 and 28.
- Reconnaissance from Alpine, Ga., toward
Summerville September 10.
- Skirmishes at Summerville September 10
and 15.
- Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21.
- Moved to Bellefonte, Ala., September
25-30.
- Operations against Wheeler and Roddy
September 30-October 2.
- Moved to Caperton's Ferry October 2, and
duty there until December 2.
- Moved to Rossville, Ga., December 2-5,
and duty there until January 6, 1864. Scout
toward Dalton December 12, 1863.
- Skirmish at Lafayette December 12.
- Scout to Lafayette December 21-23.
- Veterans on furlough January to March,
1864.
- Near Chattanooga until May 1864.
- Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September.
- Duty in rear of army covering and
protecting railroad at Wauhatchie, Lafayette,
Calhoun, Dalton and Resaca.
- At Wauhatchie May 5 to June 18.
- (A detachment at Lexington, Ky., June 10,
1864.)
- At Lafayette until August 4. Actions at
Lafayette June 24 and 30.
- At Calhoun August 4 to October 12.
- Pine Log Creek and near Fairmount August
14.
- Resaca October 12-13.
- Near Summerville October 18.
- Little River, Ala., October 20.
- Leesburg October 21. Ladiga,
- Terrapin Creek, October 28.
- Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 3-9.
- Operations against Lyon in Kentucky
December 6-28.
- Hopkinsville, Ky., December 16.
- At Nashville, Tenn., until January 9,
1865.
- Moved to Gravelly Springs, Ala., and duty
there until March 1865.
- Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Ala., to
Macon, Ga., March 22-May 1, 1865.
- Six-Mile Creek March 31.
- Selma April 2.
- Montgomery April 12.
- Wetumpka April 13.
- Fort Tyler, West Point, April
16.
- Capture of Macon April 20.
- Duty at Macon and in the Dept. of Georgia
until August.
- Mustered out August 21, 1865.
REGIMENT LOST DURING
SERVICE
- 1 Officer and 30 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded
- 1 Officer and 148 Enlisted men by
disease.
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- Total 180
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ABRAHAM MEREDITH
PVT. IN THE 4TH CAVALRY
(KY/UNION)
UNIT MUSTERED IN: SEP 1861 AT
LOUISVILLE, KY
UNIT MUSTERED OUT: 21 AUG 1865
AT MACON, GA
THOMAS MERIDETH
SGT. IN THE 4TH CAVALRY
(KY/UNION)
UNIT MUSTERED IN: SEP 1861 AT
LOUISVILLE, KY
UNIT MUSTERED OUT: 21 AUG 1865
AT MACON, GA
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