United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 14th West Virginia 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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Battle of Rutherford’s FarmThe regiment “launched a sudden attack” on the Confederate line of Brigadier General William Lewis’s Brigade of North Carolinians. line collapsed and retreated in confusion, leaving behind 300 casualties and four pieces of artillery captured.
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| 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. |
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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 |
John Shanes of Company K was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the battle. He “Charged a Confederate fieldpiece in advance of his comrades and by his individual exertions silenced the piece.”