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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.

1862
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
1863
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 6 Moorefield and Cacapon Mountain (Detachment)
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
1864
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
1865
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