14th Indiana Infantry Regiment

14th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Flag of the United States, 1863-1865
Active May 1861 to June 16, 1864
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Cheat Mountain
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 infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. 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

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.[1]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. The Civil War Archive

Further reading

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