page_title: 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
hierarchical_section_title: 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
caption_attribution_description: English: 51st Infantry, National Color, 1861 Presentation. Most of the soldiers in the 51st were prior members of the 4th PA three-month volunteers. The 4th PA received the first national color on April 20, 1861 from Judge Daniel G. Smyser of Norristown and it was then used by the 51st.The flag was carried until after the Battle of Antietam.
context_page_description: The 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, officially known as the 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War.
  Formed mostly from a militia unit in Norristown in southeastern Pennsylvania, the regiment enlisted in April 1861 for a three month period of service under the command of Colonel John F. Hartranft. Logistical difficulties bedeviled the regiment, which served as part of the garrison of Washington, D.C. until late June, when it was sent into northern Virginia to join the army of Brigadier General Irvin McDowell. The regiment suffered its only combat casualties in a picket action on 30 June and was sent back to Pennsylvania to be mustered out on the eve of First Battle of Bull Run due to disagreement among the men over remaining with the army. Members of the only regiment to refuse to fight at the battle due to the expiration of its term of service, its men were denounced as cowards. Hartranft and a company commander stayed with the army and later received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Bull Run.
context_section_description: The 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, officially known as the 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War.  
  Formed mostly from a militia unit in Norristown in southeastern Pennsylvania, the regiment enlisted in April 1861 for a three month period of service under the command of Colonel John F. Hartranft. Logistical difficulties bedeviled the regiment, which served as part of the garrison of Washington, D.C. until late June, when it was sent into northern Virginia to join the army of Brigadier General Irvin McDowell. The regiment suffered its only combat casualties in a picket action on 30 June and was sent back to Pennsylvania to be mustered out on the eve of First Battle of Bull Run due to disagreement among the men over remaining with the army. Members of the only regiment to refuse to fight at the battle due to the expiration of its term of service, its men were denounced as cowards. Hartranft and a company commander stayed with the army and later received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Bull Run. Many men of the regiment went on to serve in subsequent Pennsylvania regiments during the war, and they formed the bulk of the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry, which fought for the rest of the war.
caption: National color of the 4th Pennsylvania, later carried by the 51st Pennsylvania
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