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4th Vermont Infantry
Regimental Band

Arms, Edwin Herbert, cred. Brattleboro, VT, age 23, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Campbell, Henry, cred. Rockingham, VT, age 37, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Chandler, Frank Hilton, cred. Rockingham, VT, age 25, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Child, Myron, cred. Rockingham, VT, age 27, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Cooper, Henry A., cred. Rockingham, VT, age 22, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Higgins, Ira S., cred. Brookline, VT, age 26, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 6/23/62 (more)

Hill, Moses Barnes, cred. Brandon, VT, age 40, enl 9/9/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Kelley, Joseph B., cred. Brandon, VT, age 26, enl 9/9/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Merrill, Solomon Fellows, cred. Rockingham, VT, age 41, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Bandmaster, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Osgood, John S., cred. Rockingham, VT, age 22, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Prentiss, Fred Leroy, cred. Rockingham, VT, age 21, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Rowe, Harry, cred. Bethel, VT, age 24, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Sherman, Ransom, cred. Chester, VT, age 24, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Sherwood, Alphon Corsander, cred. Middlebury, VT, age 30, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Shuttleworth, George L., cred. Royalton, VT, age 30, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Smith, Henry Christopher, cred. Royalton, VT, age 20, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Spaulding, Melville C., cred. Pittsfield, VT, age 19, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Stone, George H., cred. Rockingham, VT, age 32, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Straight, Abram B., cred. Manchester, VT, age 21, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Swift, George Hawkins, cred. Manchester, VT, age 21, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62;
enl again 10/31/63, m/i 3/3/64, PVT, Co. F, 17th VVI, pr SGT 11/27/64, m/o 7/14/65 (more)

Wheeler, Henry Herbert, cred. Royalton, VT, age 19, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 8/9/62 (more)

Willard, James R., cred. Rutland, VT, age 37, enl 9/3/61, m/i 9/21/61, Musician, 4th VVI Band, m/o 7/14/62 (more)

See also, First Brigade Band article

See also, Linda Welch's biographical sketches of the band members.


Legend: A.C. - Army Corps; AG - Adjutant General; AAG - Assistant Adjutant General; AAAG - Acting Assistant Adjutant General; AACS - Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence; AAQM - Acting Assistant Quartermaster; ACT - Acting; ADC - Aide-de-Camp; AIG - Assistant Inspector General; A&IG - Adjutant & Inspector General; AoP - Army of the Potomac; A.P.M. - Additional Paymaster; AQM - Assistant Quartermaster; Artfcr - Artificer; BGLR - Bugler; Bndmstr - Bandmaster; BGen - Brigadier General; Blksmth - Blacksmith; Bvt - brevet; enl - enlisted; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; com - commissioned; cred. - credited to; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; CSA - Confederate States Army; d/dis - died of disease; d/prison - died in prison*; d/svc - died in service (cause unknown); d/wds - died of wounds; dis/dsb - discharged for disability; dis/dischon - dishonorable discharge; DRMR - Drummer; dsrtd - deserted; ENG - Engineer (rank); ENGNRS - Engineers (unit); FFR - Fifer; GCM - general court martial; gsw - gunshot wound; Hosp. - Hospital; IG - Inspector General, kia - killed in action; MGen - Major General; m/i - mustered in; m/o - mustered out; Muscn - Musician; mwia - mortally wounded in action; n.d. - no date; nfr - no further record; P.M. - Paymaster; pow - taken prisoner; pr - promoted; prld - paroled; Rcrt - Recruit; red - reduced (demoted); resgd - resigned; RQM - Regimental Quartermaster; SOWD - Special Order, War Department; Stew. - Steward; tr to/from - transferred to/from; USA - US Army; USCA - US Colored Artillery; USCI - US Colored Infantry; USSS - US Sharpshooters; USV - US Volunteers; VVLB - Vermont Volunteer Light Battery; VHAC - Vermont Heavy Artillery Company; VRC - Veterans Reserve Corps; VVC - Vermont Volunteer Cavalry; VVI - Vermont Volunteer Infantry; Wgnr - Wagoner; wdd - wounded
* NOTE: d/prison includes those who died on parole as a result of imprisonment

Source of roster information: basic information on enlistments, promotions, casualties, etc. comes from the 1892 "Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers," and additional information from a variety of sources, including cemetery, pension, census and other records as well as published biographies of individuals.