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Fourth Cavalry
FOURTH REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Lot the flag of our country be flung to the
sky; Our arm shall be bared for the glorious
fight, As freemen we'll live, or like freemen
we'll die! Our Union and Liberty! God and the
right!"
The 4th Cavalry was authorized about July 1st,
1862, with Colonel E. H. G-. Minty, of
Detroit, lieutenant colonel 3d Cavalry, as
commander, and was ordered into rendezvous at
Detroit on the 29th of July. It was mustered
into the service of the United States on the
29th of August following, with the maximum
force, being composed of companies recruited
in various parts of the State. When it left
the State, on the 26th of September, it had on
its rolls 1,233 names of officers and men.
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