4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
4th North Carolina battle flag (1862)
Active	1861 to April 9, 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	North Carolina
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	American Civil War Peninsular Campaign Maryland Campaign Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Gettysburg Campaign Bristoe Campaign Mine Run Campaign Wilderness Campaign Valley Campaigns of 1864 Richmond-Petersburg Campaign Appomattox Campaign

The 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was a Confederate States Army regiment during the American Civil War, active from 1861 until the war's end in April 1865. Ordered to Virginia, the unit served in General Winfield S. Featherston’s, George B. Anderson’s, Stephen D. Ramseur’s, and William R. Cox’s Brigade. Its field officers were Colonels George B. Anderson, Bryan Grimes, Edwin A. Osborne, and James H. Wood; Lieutenant Colonels David M. Carter and John A. Young; and Majors Edward S. Marsh and Absalom K. Simonton.^[1] It was nicknamed "The Bloody Fourth" after the high rate of casualties at the Battle of Seven Pines.