The Civil War in the East

14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

 

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

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

Opequan, Winchester

September 22

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, Dept. 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