United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 14th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 81 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 157 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862
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August 25 | Organized at Wheeling, W. Va. under Colonel Andrew S. Core and Major Daniel D. Johnson. Attached to Railroad Division, West Virginia |
1863
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January | Ordered to Clarksburg, W. Va., and guard duty on the Upper Potomac, Headquarters at New Creek, W. Va., attached to Defenses Upper Potomac, 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept. |
March | Attached to 5th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps |
April 4-5 | Colonel Core was discharged, having been found “grossly incompetent” by a board of examiners. Major Johnson was promoted to colonel and command of the regiment. |
April 13-22 | Expedition to Greenland Gap |
April 25 | Action at Greenland Gap (Company A) |
May-March | Duty at New Creek, Petersburg and Romney |
June | Attached to Mulligan’s Brigade, Scammon’s Division, West Virginia |
November 16 | Skirmish near Burlington |
November 19 | Burlington and Petersburg Turnpike |
December | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia |
December 16 | Salem |
December 19 | Jackson River, near Covington |
December 31-January 5 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties |
1864
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January 27-February 7 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties against Rosser |
January 30 | Evacuation of Petersburg |
April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
May 2-19 | Crook’s Expedition against Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain |
May 10 | New River Bridge and Cove Mountain or Grassy Lick, near Wytheville |
May 12-13 | Salt Pond Mountain and Gap Mountain |
May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition against Lynchburg |
June 17 | Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
June 18-July 1 | Retreat to Charleston |
June 20 | Buford’s Gap |
June 21 | About Salem |
July 12-15 | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley |
July 17-18 | Snicker’s Ferry |
July 20 | Stephenson’s Depot |
July 23-24 |
Battle of Kernstown |
July 25 | Martinsburg |
August 6- November 28 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 15 | Strasburg |
August 24 & 26 | Halltown |
September 3 | Berryville |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan (Third Battle of Winchester) |
September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-December | Duty at Camp Russell and in Shenandoah Valley |
November 28 | Myerstown |
December | Duty at Martinsburg, Cumberland, Md., and Winchester, Va. |
1865
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January | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
March 22 | Near Patterson Creek Station (Company H) |
June 28 | Mustered out |