14th Indiana Infantry Regiment
- 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 14th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
caption=Indiana flag
dates= May, 1861 to June 16, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= |battles=Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
The 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as the "Gallant Fourteenth", was an Civil War infantry regiment. A part of the celebrated Gibraltar Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, the 14th helped secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Service
*The 14th Indiana was raised at Terre Haute, Indiana in May, 1861 for one year's service.
*Remustered for three years on June 7, 1861, the first Indiana regiment to enlist for that term.
*Antietam - The 14th was part of the Gibraltar Brigade of Nathan Kimball, and assaulted Confederate positions along the Sunken Road.
*Fredericksburg
*Chancellorsville
*Gettysburg
*Battle of the Wilderness
*Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
*Battle of Cold Harbor
*Siege of Petersburg
*The regiment was amalgamated with the 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment on June 16, 1864.
Casualties
The 14th Indiana suffered 11 Officers and 139 enlisted men killed in battle or died from wounds, 1 officer and 72 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 222 fatalities.[ [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf1.htm#14th The Civil War Archive] ]
Colonels
Notes
See also
* List of Indiana Civil War regiments
Further reading
* Baxter, Nancy Niblack, "Gallant Fourteenth: The Story of an Indiana Civil War Regiment", Emmis Books, 1995, ISBN 0-9617367-8-X
External links
* [http://members.evansville.net/tlconner/ Regimental history]
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionin.htm The Civil War Archive]
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