4th Michigan Cavalry Regiment

4th Michigan Cavalry Regiment
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ActiveAugust 29, 1862, to July 1, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry

4th Michigan Cavalry Regiment was a regiment of cavalry in the Union Army during the American Civil War fighting in the western front as part of the Army of the Cumberland. It was noted as being the regiment that captured the fleeing President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, as the Confederacy collapsed in the spring of 1865.[1]

  1. ^ Turner, George H. (1900). Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865 v.34. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Ihling Bros. & Everard. p. 5.