Service
The 4th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Dick Robinson and mustered in for a three year enlistment on October 9, 1861 under the command of Colonel Speed Smith Fry. In February 1864, the regiment was reorganized at Lexington, Kentucky as the 4th Regiment Kentucky Mounted Infantry.
The regiment was attached to Thomas' Command, Army of the Ohio, to November 1861. 2nd Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to December 1861. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to June 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to November 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of Mississippi, to August 1865.
The 4th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service at Macon, Georgia on August 17, 1865.
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