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The 14th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 81 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 330 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
Organized at Augusta
December 31 Mustered in
1862
February 5 Left State for Boston. Attached to Butler’s New Orleans Expeditionary Corps
February 6 Embarked on Steamer North America for Ship Island, Miss.
March 8 Arrived Ship Island, Miss.
March Duty at Ship Island, Miss. attached to 3rd Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf
May 19-25 Moved to New Orleans
July 7 Moved to Baton Rouge, La.
July 23-25 Expedition to Amite River (Companies F and K)
August 5 Battle of Baton Rouge
August 20 Moved to Carrollton and duty there until December 13
September 4-5 Bayou Des Allemands
September 7-8 Expedition to St. Charles C. H.
September 8 St. Charles C. H.
December 13 Moved to Bonnet Carre and attached to Sherman’s Division, Dept. Gulf
December 14 Company H detached at Frenier to January 6

Company B detached at Frenier to February 20

Company E detached at Frenier to April 11

1863
January Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. Gulf
February 8-11 Scout to Pass Manchac (Detachment)
March 21-24 Expedition to Ponchatoula
March 24 Capture of Ponchatoula (Company E)
March 24-30 Expedition to Amite River (Companies A, B, C, D, G, H and I)
May 7-19 Expedition to Amite River
May 10 Civiques Ferry
May 20-22 Moved to Baton Rouge, then to Port Hudson
May 24-July 8 Siege of Port Hudson
May 27 Assault on Port Hudson
June 14 Second Assault on Port Hudson
July 8 Surrender of Port Hudson
July Attached to 1st Brigade. 3rd Division, 19th Corps, then 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Corps
July 22 Moved to Baton Rouge
September 4-11 Sabine Pass Expedition
October 3-
November 30
Western Louisiana (“Teche”) Campaign
December Duty at New Iberia
1864
January 7 Moved to Franklin
January 16 To New Orleans and duty at Camp Parapet
February attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Dept. Gulf
February 10 – April 19 Veterans on furlough
May 5 Moved to Baton Rouge
June 1 Moved to Morganza
July 3-22 Moved to Algiers, thence to Fort Monroe and Bermuda Hundred, Va.
July 23-28 In trenches at Bermuda Hundred
July 28-29 Demonstration north of James River
July 28-30 Deep Bottom
July 31 Moved to Washington, D.C.
August 2 To Tennallytown, Md.
August 7-November 28 Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, 19th Corps, 2nd Division, 1st Brigade
September 3-4 Berryville
September 19
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan)
September 22
Fisher’s Hill
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
October At Cedar Creek
November 9 At Kernstown
November 24 Guard train to Martinsburg.
December 1 Moved to Camp Russell
December 22 Duty at Stevenson’s Depot. Non-Veterans left front for muster out
1865
January 13 Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits consolidated to a Battalion of four Companies.
January 6-20 Moved to Savannah, Ga.
January 20 Provost dutyat Savannah assigned to District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. South
March Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army Ohio
March 30 Two new companies joined as Companies E and F
April 10 Four Companies joined as Companies G – K
April Assigned to District of Savannah, Dept. of the South
May 6-14 March to Augusta, Ga.
May 31-June 7 To Savannah
June 9-10 Moved to Darien. Company B at Walthamville and Company H at Brunswick.
August 28 Mustered out