Battle of Gaines’ Mill

The regiment lost 42% of the approximately 500 men engaged. Colonel McGowen was bruised in the side by canister and Major Carter and Captains Joseph N. Brown and Edward Croft were also wounded.

Frayser’s Farm

Commanded by Colonel Samuel McGowen

Second Battle of Manassas

The regiment lost 8 killed and 57 wounded. Colonel McGowen was wounded in the thigh, and Lt. Colonel W.D. Simpson was also wounded.

Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly)

Captain Pinckney A. West of Company B was wounded.

Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)

The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel William D. Simpson.

From the brigade marker on the Antietam battlefield:

Gregg’s Brigade formed line about 3 P.M. in the fields southwest of this and advanced into the southwest corner of the 40 acre cornfield, about 100 yards east of this point, where it encountered and repulsed the advance of the extreme left of the Ninth Corps. An effort to pursue into the field beyond was checked, and the Brigade fell back to the line now marked by this road, where it remained until the early morning of the 19th, when it retired to Blackford’s Ford and was the last Infantry Brigade of the Confederate Army to recross the Potomac.

Battle of Shepherdstown

Lost 10 killed and 45 wounded

Battle of Fredericksburg

General Gregg was mortally wounded. Colonel McGowen took over the brigade, with Lieutenant  Colonel Abner Perrin taking command of the regiment.

Battle of Chancellorsville

The regiment was commanded by Colonel Abner Perrin, and lost 145 men. General McGowan was wounded in the thigh, and Colonel Perrin took command of the brigade while Lieutenant Colonel J.N. Brown took command of the regiment.

Battle of Gettysburg

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph N. Bown was still in command of the 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment while Colonel Perrin commanded the brigade. The regiment lost 209 men of 408 engaged, most of them in the last attack on Seminary ridge on July 1. Lt. Colonel Brown and Major Edward Croft were wounded. Out of the 39 men of Company K, 34 were shot down in front of the seminary.

From the monument to Perrin’s Brigade on the Gettysburg Battlefield:

July 1. Crossed Willoughby Run about 3.30 P. M. with its left in Reynolds Woods and advancing relieved Heth’s line. Took a prominent part in the struggle by which the Union forces were dislodged from Seminary Ridge and pursuing them into town captured many prisoners. The Rifle Regiment was on duty as train guard and not in the battle of this day.

July 2. Supported artillery south of Fairfield Road. At 6 P. M. advanced a battalion of Sharpshooters which skirmished with Union outposts until dark. At 10 P. M. took position on Ramseur’s right in the Long Lane leading from the town to the Bliss House and Barn.

July 3. In the same position and constantly engaged in skirmishing.

July 4. After night withdrew and began the march to Hagerstown.

Falling Waters

Bristoe Campaign

Mine Run

Battle of The WIlderness

The regiment lost 85 men.

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost 72 men. Colonel Joseph N. Brown took command of the brigade as senior colonel after Brigadier General Samual McGowan was wounded on May 12. Captain J.H. Boatwright took command of the regiment.

From the monument to McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade at the Bloody Angle:

The Bloody Angle
In the rainy gloom of May 12, 1864, Brigadier General Samuel McGowan’s brigade of South Carolinians battled their way into the disputed earthworks here, near the apex of the Muleshoe Salient. For eighteen hours the 1,300 South Carolinians defended these works against relentless attacks by thousands of Federals, sometimes engaging in hand-to-hand fighting. By battle’s end, 451 men of the brigade were killed, wounded, or missing. The slight angle in the works they defended would forever be known as the Bloody Angle.

North Anna

Colonel Joseph N. Brown was captured while in command of the brigade.

Jericho Ford

Battle of Cold Harbor

Deep Bottom

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft was in command of the regiment, then Major H.H. Harper. The regiment lost 24 men.

Fussell’s Mill (Strawberry Plains)

Siege of Petersburg

Jones Farm (Squirrel Level Road)

The regiment lost 35 men at Poplar Spring Church

Pegram’s Farm

Five Forks

Commanded by Major E.D. Brailsford

Dinwiddie Courthouse

The regiment was commanded by Colonel Joseph N. Brown

Appomattox Court House

The 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment surrendered 18 officers and 246 men, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft.