Col. John Q. Burbridge, 4th Missouri Cavalry (Missouri History Museum)
Stoddard County Companies
Company A: Joseph J. Miller, resigned because of wound - October 2, 1863.
James R. Jackson
Company B: David G. Hicks
Company C: William T. Lineback
James R. Jackson
Company B: David G. Hicks
Company C: William T. Lineback
The 4th Missouri Cavalry was raised in the summer and early fall of 1862. While called a regiment, it was actually battalion. John Q. Burbridge originally raised the unit as partisan rangers but changed his purpose to conventional cavalry when the Confederacy officially abandoned partisan ranger organization. The 4th Missouri merged with another battalion to officially form the 4th Missouri Cavalry (CS). In April, Burbridge was in charge of a small brigade that contained his regiment and Newton's infantry and artillery.
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Their first large scale fight happened during Marmaduke's southeast Missouri raid where they suffered seven wounded at the battle of Cape Girardeau. After Marmaduke returned to Arkansas in May, 1863, the 4th Missouri performed outpost and scout duty in northeast Arkansas until it again rejoined Marmaduke's Brigade under Colton Greene. They missed the July 4 battle of Helena but participated in several skirmishes around Little Rock. The next significant campaign was fighting that occurred during the Red River campaign. In the spring of 1864 it participated in the battles of Poison Spring and Jenkin's Ferry. Then harassed Union naval boats along the Mississippi River before joining in on Price's 1864 raid into Missouri.
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John S. Marmaduke (Library of Congress)
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The 4th Missouri fought on Marmaduke's left flank at Pilot Knob on September 27, 1864. Like its sister unit, the 8th Missouri Cavalry, it suffered heavy losses and was pinned down for a considerable amount of time in a dry creek bed. The regiment suffered seven killed and twenty-eight wounded in less than twenty minutes of combat. It traveled with Price throughout the campaign.
After Price's Raid, the regiment spent the remainder of the war largely inactive in camps in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana. The regiment surrendered and was paroled at Shreveport, LA. It suffered thirty-eight killed in battle and fifty-one of disease.