Colonel
T.
Lyle
Dickey
Commanding
4th
Illinois Cavalry
The Above Picture of Colonel
Dickey was Donated by:
Mr.
Stephen
Osman
On
August 1861, Judge T. Lyle Dickey, of Ottawa, LaSalle
County was authorized by the Secretary of War to raise
and organize a regiment of cavalry.
Sometime afterwards, but before
the Regiment was complete, a controversy arose between
the Secretary of War and Governor Yates, of Illinois. In
the settlement of which it was conceded that the Governor
should commission the officers selected by Dickey, and
the organization went upon the record as the Fourth
Illinois Cavalry.
So on the 26th day of September,
1861, the Regiment was mustered into the United States
military service for a period of 3 years and soon after
took up its line of march for Springfield where it
received its arms, which were not removed from their
cases, however, until the command arrived at
Cairo
The regiment left Ottawa with
1050 enlisted men and 46 Officers. Three years later,
when we returned to Springfield to be mustered out, we
had 340 men, exclusive of 116 that re-enlisted and a few
that received commissions in colored regiments. P. O.
Avery, Company "I", 4th Illinois Cavalry
This
Site
Is
Dedicated
To
The
Memory
Of
My
Great
Grand
Father
Joseph
Smith
Fanning
Picture
of Col Dickey and Daughter, Donated by:Stephen
Osman
Complete
Roster of the 4th Illinois Cavalry
Field and Staff Consolidated with the 12th
Roster
of the "Unassigned Recruits and Band"
Roster
of Company A, Consolidated
Roster
of Company B, Consolidated
Roster
of Company B, Consolidated
Roster
of Company C, Consolidated
Roster
of Company D, Consolidated
Roster
of Company E, Consolidated
4th
Illinois Cavalrymen P.O.W.'s at Camp Ford
4th
Illinois Cavalrymen P.O.W.'s at Andersonville
Prison
Andersonville
Photographed by Mary Anne Wallace
4th
Illinois Cavalryman accounts at
Andersonville
Diary
of the 4th Illinois Cavalry by: Mr.
P.O.Avery
Diary
of the 4th Illinois Cavalry by: Thomas K.
Mitchell
A Horse to Live A Greyhound to Dir Written By: Bruce Makoto Arnold"
Enlist
on Board The U.S.S. Cairo
Fort
Henry Battle Summaries
Fort
Donelson Battle Summaries
The
Battle for Fort Donelson by: General Lew
Wallace
The
Capture of Fort Donelson "Century
Magazine"
Colonel
Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes from Fort
Donelson
Shiloh
Pictures, Photographed by: Maryanne
Wallace
"Shiloh's"
Time Line
"Shiloh"
The Battle Begins
Complete
list of all Regiments who fought at Shiloh With
Pictures
Civil
War Drawing of "Pittsburgh Landing"
Visit
Don Sides Shiloh's 140th Aniversary
Re-Enactment"
Colonel
T. Lyle Dickey's letter to his Aunt, on the Battle of
Shiloh
A
Letter Home, W.H.L. Wallace
Picture of W.H.L.Wallace's Horse in from of Home
Picture of W.H.L.Wallace Home
Wonderful Web Site Battle Accounts of
"Shiloh"
General
Lew Wallace becomes Governor of New Mexico
The
Weekly Philadelphia Times October 26, 1878
Memphis
Tennessee to Vicksburg Mississippi Campaign
Report
Van
Dorn's Raid on Holly Springs by: Edward G.
Longacre
Picture
of 7th Kansas And 4th Illinois Cavalry at Camp
Oxford
Raid
on Mobile and Ohio Railroad
A
Civil War Drawings of Holly Springs
The Death of Col. McCullough:by Don Sides
Colonel Theophilus Lyle Dickey Report on Coffeeville
Treadwell's
Plantation, a story told by a young Confederate
Solder
The
80th Illinois Infantry and the 4th Illinios at
Colliersville"
"Union
Graves in Mississippi"
Lieutenant
Colonel William McCullough Killed by: Mr. Don
Sides
William
Orme Writes Lincoln about McCullough
14th
Mississippi Infantry killed Colonel William F.
McCullough
The
Battle for Coffeeville Mississippi
The
Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign by Mr. Don
Sides
A
sad story of William Stillhammer by: Mr. Don
Sides
The
New York Times, Reports action at Coffeeville
Mississippi
Jeff
Davis Legion written by: Mr. Robert Cook
General
U.S. Grant A Short Biography on the
Battlefield
10
Men from the 4th Illinois Cavalry became Prisoners of
War
The
Cotton Raid In Mississippi, By Judy
Simpson
W
O Rogers: By Judy Simpson
5
Letters From Home, Donated by Mr. Joey
Wooldridge
Battle
at Brownsville April 19th through 23rd
1865
Location of Graves of the Men of the 4th Illinois
Cavalry
Civil
War Dispatch's pertaining to the 4th Illinois
Cavalry
General
Grants Special Orders Number 5
General
Grant Special Order No. 11 what to do with the
Jews
Ex-Slaves
formed the 3rd Cavalry
Lyle
T. Dickey written by: C.D.Burchfield
"Lincoln
and Lyle Dickey" They Kept Up The Fight
The
Patriotism of Illinois by: Mr Tom Eddy
The
Carlisle Herald 1869 "The Roll of Honor"
Court
Martial of " Asmiel Harmenn" of Company
"A"
Court
Martial of "Joseph Smith Fanning" of Company
"F"
Hiram
Sturgeon captured by the 4th Illinois
Cavalry
William
Metcafe, a boy files a claim against the 4th Illinois
Cavalry
7th
Kansas Cavalry rode together
Colonel
Osbrand and Emery to lead the 3rd Illinois
Cavalry
4th
Iowa Cavalry and the 4th Illinois Cavalry
The
New Orleans Daily Crescent Published December 17,
1860
The
Hartford Convention
Grant's
Order of Execution
Soldiers
executed during the Civil War
They
Answered The Last Call, Taps Sounded
What happened to the men of Company F
Please Help I.D. this old soldier, by Dan West
4th Cavalry Soldiers Buried in Illinois
General
Sherman's farewell speach to his army
Civil
War vocabulary and slang used by both North and
South
MHI
Photo Database Photo’s of 4th Illinois Cavalry
Soldiers
Stanford
University collection of Company "M"
Dwight
Allen Brown 4th Illinois Cavalry
Phil
Wolfersburger picture donated by: Mr. Matt
Anderson
Ben
Meetch & Phil Wolfersburger donated by: Matt
Anderson
Jeremiah
Grove, picture donated by: Mr. Matt
Anderson
Ancestry
of Marshall H. Moon, by: "Jane Slaughter"
Pictures
of 4th Illinois Cavalry soldiers donated by: Mr. Dan
West
Battle
Maps
"Dyers
Regimental History"
Compendium
on the 4th Illinois Cavalry
Books
on the 4th Illinois Cavalry
"Misc
Pictures" and Battle Reports
Links
The
30th Illinois Infantry
The
Reunion of 1886
Translation web site at Alta-Vista
ronwally@yahoo.com.com
Date Last Updated: August 10,2008
Again
many thanks To: Tim McKern,Matthew C. kestel of Illinois,Paulette
Haynes, Bruce Makoto Arnold,
Mr. Curtis Dean
Burchfield of Mississippi.
Mr. Matt
Anderson 30th Illinois
Infantry for his Pictures.
Stephen Osman,Mr. Dan West, Mr. Robert
Cook, Barbara Hitt Alden, Mr. Steve Johsz, Mr. Don Sides,
Don Simon's, Judy Simpson, Randy Beck, Joey Woolridge and
Jane Slaughter
of Arizona.. for furnishing
their articles, manuscripts, papers and letters, they
have helped this Web-Page grow, with information they
have given.
Thank You
Ronald
R
Wallace
Awards
won by
the
4th
Illinois
Cavalry
