United States Regiments & Batteries > New Hampshire


The 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 63 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 151 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.The regiment is honored by a monument in the Winchester National Cemetery.

1862
September 24 Organized at Concord and mustered in under Colonel Rober Wilson, Lieutenant Colonel Tileston Barker, and Major Samuel Duncan
September Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to Grover’s Brigade, Military District of Washington
November Picket and patrol duty along Upper Potomac, Defenses of Washington
1863
February Assigned to Jewett’s Brigade, 22nd Corps, Defenses of Washington
April Provost duty at Washington, D.C.
June Assigned to Garrison of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps
1864
February 3 Ordered to Harper’s Ferry
February 25 Moved to Cumberland, Md. and return to Washington
March 20 Ordered to New Orleans, La. and sailed from New York.
April-June Duty at Camp Parapet, Carrollton, Jefferson City and along Lake Pontchatrain assigned to Defenses of New Orleans, La., Dept. of the Gulf.
June 7 Ordered to Morganza, La. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf
July 13-August 19 Movement to Fortress Monroe, Va., thence to Washington, D. C., and to Berryville, Va.
August to
December
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, assigned to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, 19th Corps, 2nd Division, 1st Brigade
September 19
Third Battle of Winchester, or Opequon

The regiment suffered 32 killed, 12 mortally wounded, including Colonel Alexander Gardner, and 10 wounded.

Killed:

Captains William H. Chaffin and William A. Fosgate

Lieutenants Henry S. Paul and Jesse A. Fiske

Sergeants Charles C. Wilson, George W. Felch, Matthew Macurdy and Albert A. Baker

Corporals Nathaniel P. Rust, Moses Allen, George W. Hazen, Sylvester Tasker, Charles W. Noyes and Darwin W. Chase

Privates Nathaniel Wyman, Sydney H. Young, George Perrigo, George L. Wetherbee, Fred B. Andrews, Henry L. Haynes, Aaron E. Boyd, C. L. Himan, Melborn Marston, George T. Souther, Walter. A. Scott, Lucius Parker, Otis A. Barnes, Silas Water, Hazen O. Baker, Daniel J. Cameron, Daniel W. Phelps and Lauren E.. Bent

Mortally wounded:

Colonel Alexander Gardner, A. E. Colburn, G. H. Stone, Lucius Willard, Harvey R. Brown, G. H. Stone, George W. Tucker, Luther G. Merrill, Richard Varney, G. B. Cofran, Oceanus Straw, Harrison Atwood, Amos Harriman

September 22
Fisher’s Hill
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
October-January Duty at Kernstown and other points in the Shenandoah Valley
1865
January Moved to Washington, D.C.
January 8-20 To Savannah, Ga. and Provost duty there, assigned to 1st Brigade, Grover’s Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South
March Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
March 24 Captain Oliver Marston promoted to lieutenant colonel
May 6-14 March to Augusta, Ga.
June Return to Savannah
July 8 Mustered out