4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

The 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The 4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was mustered into service at Ottawa, Illinois, on September 26, 1861.

It was consolidated with 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment on June 14, 1865.

The regiment lost 1 officer and 31 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 166 enlisted men from disease, for a total of 199 fatalities.

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Wagoner John M. Moore of Co. K, 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress