United States Regiments & Batteries > Vermont > 14th Vermont Infantry Regiment
The 14th Vermont Infantry Regiment mustered 37 officers and 926 enlisted men during the Civil War. It lost 18 enlisted men killed and 1 officer and 8 enlisted mortally wounded. 39 enlisted men were lost to disease, 1 died in a Confederate prison and 1 was murdered while on furlough.
The regiment is honored by a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.
| 1862 | |
| September – October |
The regiment was recruited in Addison, Rutledge and Bennington counties and organized at Brattleboro. Organization of the Regiment
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| October 21 |
The 14th Vermont Infantry Regiment mustered in for nine months United States service under the command of Colonel William T. Nicholls, former Captain in the 1st Vermont Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Rose, former Captain in the 5th Vermont Infantry, and Major Nathaniel B. Hall. |
| October 22-25 | Left Vermont with 952 men for Washington, D.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, Military District of Washington |
| October 25-28 | At Camp Chase, Arlington, Va. |
| October 29 | At East Capital Hill |
| October 30 | March to Munson’s Hill |
| November 5 | To Hunting Creek, at Camp Vermont |
| November 26- December 5 |
Picket duty near Occoquan Creek |
| December 12 | Duty near Fairfax Court House |
| December 28 |
Fairfax Court HouseDefence of Fairfax Court House from attack by Stuart’s Cavalry |
| 1863 | |
| January 20 | At Fairfax Station |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
| April 17 | Transferred to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, 22nd Corps |
| March 24 | At Wolf Run Shoals, Union Mills and on the Occoquan |
| June 25-July 1 | March to Gettysburg. The Brigade marched 120 miles in six days. |
| July | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe regiment was commanded by Colonel W.T. Nichols, bringing 647 men to the field. It arrived on the battlefield on the evening of July 1 after the day’s fighting was over and bivouacked in a wheatfield near Cemetery Hill. For many of the men one of the highlights of the battle was when Quartermaster Charles Field showed up on Cemetery Hill with four wagon loads of hardtack and coffee in disobedience of orders to go to the rear and at great risk of capture. On the afternoon of July 2 the regiment moved to the left center on Cemetery Ridge and helped repel a Confederate assault that threatened to capture a Federal battery. It remained in that position for the rest of the battle. As the Confederate artillery barrage began in the afternoon of July 3 a number of men were killed and wounded in the explosion of an artillery caisson. Colonel Nichols received permission to move forward about ten rods, and the regiment rode out the cannonade on somewhat safer ground. The men lay concealed until Pickett’s attacking troops were about 60 yards away, when they rose up and greeted them with a staggering volley. As the Confederate line passed by the regiment moved out obliquely at right angles to the line and charged forward, keeping up a heavy fire into Pickett’s flank. After Pickett’s men had been dealt with Confederate General Wilcox’s brigade approached through the battle smoke. Companies A, F, D & I under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Rose joined the 13th Vermont in turning back this column and capturing many of its men. The 13th Vermont lost 19 men killed and 76 wounded, of whom 9 were mortal.Killed
Mortally wounded
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| July 4-18 | Pursuit of Lee. The march on the July 7 was 35 miles long and finished in heavy rain at the top of Catoctin Mountain. Private Elisha Wales of Company K died of fatigue on July 15. |
| July 18-21 | Moved to Brattleboro, Vt. |
| July 30 | The 14th Vermont Infantry Regiment mustered out |