United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry lost 2 officers and 97 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 296 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| October and November | Organized at Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Erie under Colonel James M. Schoonmaker |
| November 24 | Moved to Hagerstown, Md. |
| December 28 | To Harper’s Ferry |
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1863
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| January | Picket and outpost duty in the vicinity of Harper’s Ferry attached to Defenses Upper Potomac, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| March | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Corps, then 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Corps |
| March 15 | Scout to Leesburg |
| April 21-24 | Scout to Leesburg |
| May | Ordered to Grafton, W. Va., and duty protecting Phillippi, Beverly and Webster |
| June | Attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. West Virginia |
| July 2-3 | Forced march to relief of Beverly |
| July 4 | Huttonsville |
| July 5-14 | Moved to Webster, then to Cumberland, Md., and to Williamsport, Md., and join Army of the Potomac |
| July 15 | Advance to Martinsburg |
| July 18-19 | Martinsburg and Hedgesville |
| July 30 | McConnellsburg, Pa. |
| August 1-31 | Averill’s Raid from Winchester through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, W. Va. |
| August 2 | Newtown |
| August 7 |
Battle of MoorefieldCaptain Thomas Kerr of Company C led the advance scouts that headed Averill’s early morning surprise attack on a Confederate cavalry encampment.
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| August 19 | Salt Works, near Franklin |
| August 25 | Jackson River |
| August 26-27 | Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs |
| October 15 | Hedgesville (Detachment) |
| November 1-17 | Averill’s Raid against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| November 4 | Cackletown |
| November 5 | Mill Point |
| November 6 | Droop Mountain |
| December 8-25 | Averill’s Raid from New Creek to Salem, on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Dept. West Virginia. |
| December 11 | Marling’s Bottom Bridge |
| December 12 | Gatewood’s |
| December 16 | Descent upon Salem |
| December 19 | Scott’s or Barber’s Creek |
| December 19 | Jackson River, near Covington |
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1864
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| March 22 | Winchester |
| April 8 | Winchester |
| April 23-May 16 | Sigel’s Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia (Detachment) |
| May 5-19 | Averill’s Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| May 10 | Grassy Lick, Cove Mountain, near Wytheville and New River Bridge |
| May 15 | New Market (Detachment) |
| May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
| June 5 | Piedmont, Mount Crawford |
| June 6 | Occupation of Staunton. Detachment with Sigel rejoined Regiment at Staunton. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia. |
| June 11 | Lexington |
| June 13-15 | Scout around Lynchburg |
| June 13 | Near Buchanan |
| June 16 | New London |
| June 17 | Diamond Hill |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 19 | Liberty |
| June 20 | Buford’s Gap |
| June 21 | Catawba Mountains and about Salem |
| June 22 | Liberty |
| July | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley |
| July 17 | Buckton |
| July 20 | Stephenson’s Depot |
| July 22 | Newtown |
| July 24 | Kernstown, Winchester |
| July 25 | Near Martinsburg |
| July 29 | Hagerstown |
| July 31 | Hancock, Md. |
| August 4 | Antietam Ford |
| August to November | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, then 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| August 7 | Near Moorefield |
| August 26 | Williamsport, Md. |
| August 31 | Martinsburg |
| September 2-3 | Bunker Hill |
| September 5 | Winchester |
| September 10 | Darkesville |
| September 13 | Bunker Hill |
| September 14 | Near Berryville |
| September 19 | Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
| September 22 | Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
| September 23-24 | Mount Jackson |
| September 24 | Forest Hill or Timberville |
| September 26 | Brown’s Gap |
| September 26-27 | Weyer’s Cave |
| October 3 | Mount Jackson (Detachment) |
| October 19 | Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October 23 | Dry Run (Detachment) |
| October 25-26 | Milford |
| November 8 | Cedar Creek |
| November 12 | Nineveh |
| November 23 | Rude’s Hill |
| November 30 | Snicker’s Gap |
| December 17 | Millwood (Detachment) |
| December 19-28 | Expedition from Winchester to Gordonsville |
| December 21 | Madison C. H. |
| December 22 | Liberty Mills |
| December 23 | Near Gordonsville |
| December 24 | At Winchester |
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1865
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| February 18-19 | Expedition into Loudoun County (Detachment) |
| February 19 | Expedition to Ashby’s Gap |
| April 20 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. and duty there attached to 1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Corps, Department of Washington |
| May 28-24 | Grand Review |
| June | Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and duty in the District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri |
| August 24 | Mustered out |
Captain Kerr was awarded the Medal of Honor for “After being most desperately wounded, he captured the colors of the 8th Virginia Cavalry.” Kerr had been shot in the face and though and his horse was killed.