This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/122.136.3.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Information on the Civil War service of Henry H. McGill is difficult to find. He is listed in the United States National Archives, Civil War Service Records in Box 559, Extraction 19, Record 3390 for service in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry/Cavalry. For fee, you can get his complete service records. Go to: www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1864/CSR.htm for instructions. The 4th Wisconsin History does not list Henry H. MCGill as a member, but that does not mean he was not a member. The National Archives is a better authority and it clearly shows him to be a member assigned to F Company. A Henry McGill of the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry applied for a Civil War pension on July 16, 1890; application #840332 and apparently was successful because a certificate # 599858 was issued. But, I don't know if this was Henry H. McGill - there were 3 Henry McGill's from Wisconsin in the Civil War, but only one in the 4th Wisconsin, so this could be him. If so, this further supports his membership in the 4th Wisconsin. What we do know: Henry H. McGill at induction was Private and at discharge he was Private - that is the usual notation for the majority of service members of that time. Henry H. McGill was in Company F, "Geneva Independents" which was part of the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The first Regimental commander was Colonel Halbert E. Paine. He was succeeded by Colonel Sidney Beam when Paine was promoted to brigadier general. The first company commander of F Company was Captain Daniel C. Roundy from Geneva. He was a medical doctor and when the Regimental surgeon resigned, Roundy took his place. The next company commander was Captain Nelson F. Craigue and then Captain Milo Seeley. Although McGill apparently did not stay in the service beyond the conclusion of the Civil War, the 4th Cavalry was retained in active service for a while and assigned to the Ringgold Barracks in Texas to perform guard and patrol duty along the Rio Grande from Brownsville to Laredo until May 1866. The Regiment was finally mustered out at Brownsville May 28, 1866 and moved to Madison, Wis., June 3-18, and discharged June 19, 1866. McGill may or may not have mustered out with the Regiment in June 1866. The following is from Wisconsin Veterans Museum: "The Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry was organized as the 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment at Camp Utley, Racine, WI, and mustered into the service of the United States on the July 2nd, 1861. It left the state on the 15th of July, proceeding to Baltimore, MD, and into camp at the Relay House, MD, August 5, 1861, remaining on duty there until early in November when the regiment was transferred to Baltimore. It remained there until the latter part of February, 1862, when it proceeded to Newport News, VA, from which point the Fourth embarked on the 6th of March to join the "Army of the Gulf." It arrived at Ship Island below New Orleans March 12, 1862, and landed in New Orleans on May 1st. It was at once assigned to active service and took part with an expedition up the Mississippi River against Vicksburg in May, and another in June, and with this force occupied Baton Rouge, LA, a little later in the year. The forces there were employed in successful expeditions during that winter, and ! in May were collected with a view of capturing Port Hudson, LA, in which siege and sanguinary contest the Fourth participated May 21 to July 8,1863. This was the last service of the Fourth as a regiment of Infantry. On the 1st of September, 1863, the regiment was by order of the War Department equipped as a cavalry regiment. Thereafter the Fourth regiment was actively and almost constantly engaged in scouting, picketing and accompanying expeditions of various points in Louisiana and Mississippi until July, 1865, when with other troops it was transferred to Texas near the Rio Grande. Companies of the regiment were detached to guard different points along the line of that river, and the whole command remained in this service until the latter part of May, 1866, when the regiment was transferred to Madison, WI, which place was reached June 14th and the regiment was soon thereafter mustered out of service of the United States and disbanded."