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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
After the death of Colonel Woodbury, Lieutenant Colonel Childs was promoted to the colonelcy, Lieutenant Colonel Duffield having been previously promoted to the colonelcy of the 9th Infantry.
When the campaign on the Peninsula ended, the 4th returned with the army and entered on the "Pope campaign. "
The regiment, in command of Colonel Childs, was in the engagement at Gainesville, August 29th, 1862; Bull Run, August 30th; and at Antietam on the l7th of September following. At Shepardstown Ford, September 20th, with its brigade, it forded the Potomac in face of a battery, killed and drove off the enemy, capturing the guns.
Michigan in the Civil War
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