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
August 25 Organized at Wheeling, W. Va. under Colonel Andrew S. Core and Major Daniel D. Johnson. Attached to Railroad Division, West Virginia
1863
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
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
January Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia
March 22 Near Patterson Creek Station (Company H)
June 28 Mustered out