14th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Organized at Terre Haute, Ind., for one year's service May, 1861.
Reorganized for three years' service and mustered in June 7, 1861. (1st
three years Regiment organized in Indiana.) Moved to Indianapolis, Ind.,
June 24, thence to Clarksburg, W. Va., July 5. Attached to 1st Brigade,
Army of Occupation, West Virginia, to September, 1861. Reynolds' Cheat
Mountain District, W. Va., to December, 1861. 1st Brigade, Lander's
Division Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' 2nd
Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, to April, 1862, and Dept. of the
Shenandoah to May 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the
Rappahannock, to June, 1862. Kimball's Independent Brigade, 2nd Army Corps,
Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd
Army Corps, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to
June, 1864.

SERVICE -- Campaign in west Virginia July 7-17, 1861. Battle of Rich
Mountain July 11 (Reserve). Moved to Cheat Mountain July 13, and duty there
till October. Operation on Cheat Mountain September 11-17. Cheat Mountain
Summit September 12. Action at Greenbrier River October 3-4. Duty at
Huttonsville, Phillippi and Romney till January 10, 1862. Expedition to
Blue's Gap January 6-7. Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, January 7. Moved to Paw
Paw Tunnel January 10, and duty there till March 5. Advance on Winchester,
Va., March 5-15. Battle of Winchester March 23. Columbia Furnace April 16.
Occupation of Mt. Jackson April 17. March to Fredericksburg May 12-21, and
return to Front Royal May 25-30. Front Royal May 30. Expedition to Luray
June 3-7. Forced march to Port Republic June 8-9. Battle of Port Republic
June 9 (Reserve). Moved to Alexandria June 29, thence to Harrison's Landing
June 30-July 2. Chickahominy Swamps July 3-5. Saxall's, Herring Creek,
Harrison's Landing July 4. At Harrison's Landing till August 15. Moved to
Alexandria, thence to Centreville August 16-29. In Works at Centreville and
cover Pope's retreat to Washington August 29-September 2. Maryland Campaign
September 6-22. Battles of South Mountain September 14; Antietam September
16-17. Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 22, and duty there till
October 30. Reconnoissance to Leesburg October 1-2. Berry's Ford Gap
November 1. March to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of
Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. At
Falmouth till April. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of
Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle
of Gettysburg July 2-4. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24.
Detached on duty at New York City during draft disturbances August 16 to
September 6. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 14.
Blackburn's Ford October 15. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November
7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Robertson's Tavern or Locust
Grove November 27. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.,
Morton's Ford February 6-7. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River
May 4-June 15. Battle of the Wilderness May 5-7. Laurel Hill May 8.
Spottsylvania May 8-12. Po River May 10. Spottsylvania Court House May
12-21. Assault on the Salient "Bloody Angle" May 12. North Anna River May
23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold
Harbor June 1-6. Left front June 6. Mustered out June 16, 1864, expiration
of term. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 20th Indiana Infantry.

Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 139 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 72 Enlisted men by disease. Total 222.

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Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer.
Copyright, 1908.
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