August 24, 1861

Robert B. Whitney was enlisted as a Private by Captain Henry Lyons Terry of the 4th Regiment at Rochester to serve for three years in the Civil War. (biography)

September 21, 1861

The Fourth Regiment, the first to be clothed in army blue, Mustered into service, left Brattleboro that evening and arrived at Washington forty-eight hours later (Crockett)

May 17, 1862

Robert Whitney, 4th Regiment, was sent to Carver Hospital, DC, suffering from chronic diarrhea (biography)

May 3, 1863

First Lieutenant Daniel D. Wheeler, Company G, 4th VVI, was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on this date. (more)

May 4, 1863

Sergeant Robert J. Coffey, Co. K, 4th VVI, was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on this date. (more)

August 11, 1863

Robert Whitney, 4th Regiment, received a pension "As a result of being disabled by chronic diarrhea and resulting disease of rectum; and rheumatism" from this date until his death. (more)

September 13, 1863

Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, a Quaker, was drafted. (Pringle)

June 23, 1864

Sergeant James Drury, Co. C, 4th VVI, was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on this date. (more)

September 19, 1864

4th Regiment was engaged or present at Winchester, Va. (see battles)

September 22, 1864

4th Regiment was engaged or present at Fisher's Hill, Va. (see battles)

July 13, 1865

4th Regiment mustered out, having lost 12 Officers and 150 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 279 Enlisted men by disease. Total 442. (Dyer)

February 28, 1913

William G. Pickett, 4th Regiment, a native of Liverpool, England, died at the home of his son after weeks of intense suffering. (Obituary)