14th Ohio Infantry Regiment

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  • April 25, 1861, to August 13, 1861 (3 months)
  • August 14, 1861, to July 11, 1865 (3 years)}}

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The 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

=Three-months regiment=

The 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Toledo, Ohio, on April 25, 1861, under Colonel James Blair Steedman in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers.{{sfnp|Dyer|1908|p=1502}} The regiment moved to Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, then to Columbus, Ohio, May 22. Left Ohio for western Virginia May 27. Moved to Clarksburg May 29, and to Phillippi June 2. Action at Philippi June 3. Western Virginia Campaign June 6–17. Laurel Hill July 7. Belington July 8. Pursuit of Garnett July 13–17. Carrick's Ford July 13–14. Ordered to Toledo July 22. The regiment were mustered out August 13, 1861.

=Three-years regiment=

The 14th Ohio Infantry was reorganized at Toledo on August 14-September 5, 1861, and mustered in for three years service.{{sfnp|Dyer|1908|p=1502}}

==Attachments==

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Attached To

! Dates

Thomas' Command, Camp Dick Robinson, Ky.

| to November 1861

2nd Brigade, Army of the Ohio

| to December 1861

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio

| to September 1862

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio

| to November 1862

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland

| to January 1863

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps

| to October 1863

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps

| to July 1865

The 14th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 11, 1865.

Detailed service

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Date(s)

! Actions/Events

colspan=2 | 1861
August 23

| Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio

August 25

| Moved to Frankfort, Ky.

August 28

| Moved to Nicholasville

October 2 to January 1

| At Camp Dick Robinson and Lebanon, Ky.

October 21

| Action at Camp Wild Cat, Rockcastle Hills

colspan=2 | 1862
January 1–15

| Advance on Camp Hamilton

January 19–20

| Action at Logan's Cross Roads or Fishing Creek (Company C)

January 19–20

| Battle of Mill Springs

January 21-February 11

| Duty at Mill Springs

February 11-March 2

| Moved to Louisville, Ky., thence to Nashville, Tenn.

March 20-April 7

| March to Savannah, Tenn.

April 12–13

| At Bear Creek, Ala.

April 29-May 30

| Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss.

June to August

| Duty at Iuka, Miss. and Tuscumbia, Ala.

August 7

| Action at Decatur, Ala.

August 20-September 26

| March to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky.

September 29–30

| Rolling Fork

October 1–16

| Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky

October 8

| Battle of Perryville, Ky. (headquarters guard). March to Gallatin, Tenn., duty there until January 13, 1863

December 22 to January 2

| Operations against Morgan

December 29

| At Boston

colspan =2| 1863
January 13

| Moved to Nashville thence to Murfreesboro, Tenn., with duty there until June

March 4–14

| Expedition toward Columbia

June 23-July 7

| Tullahoma Campaign

June 24–26

| Hoover's Gap

July 1

| Tullahoma

July 2-August 16

| Occupation of middle Tennessee

August 16-September 22

| Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign

September 19–21

| Battle of Chickamauga

September 24-November 23

| Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn.

November 23–27

| Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

November 23–24

| Orchard Knob

November 25

| Missionary Ridge

December 17

|Reenlisted

colspan =2 | 1864
May 1-September 8

| Atlanta Campaign

May 8–11

| Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 14–15

| Battle of Resaca

May 18–25

| Advance on Dallas

May 25-June 5

| Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

June 10-July 2

| Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain

June 11–14.

| Pine Hill

June 15–17

| Lost Mountain

June 19

| Pine Knob, near Marietta

June 27

| Assault on Kennesaw

July 4

| Ruff's Station

July 5–17

| Chattahoochie River

July 19–20

| Peachtree Creek

July 22-August 25

| Siege of Atlanta

August 5–7

| Utoy Creek

August 25–30

| Flank movement on Jonesboro

August 31-September 1

|Battle of Jonesboro

September 29-November 3

| Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama

November 15-December 10

| March to the sea

December 10–21

| Siege of Savannah

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January to April

| Campaign of the Carolinas

March 11

| Fayetteville, N. C

March 19–21

| Battle of Bentonville

March 24

| Occupation of Goldsboro

April 10–14

| Advance on Raleigh

April 14

| Occupation of Raleigh

April 26

| Bennett's House

April 29-May 19

| Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va

May 24

| Grand Review of the Armies

June 15

| Moved to Louisville, Ky

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 332 men during service; 5 officers and 141 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 185 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

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See also

References

=Citations=

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=Sources=

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  • Chase, John A. History of the Fourteenth Ohio Regiment, O.V.V.I.: From the Beginning of the War in 1861 to Its Close in 1865 (Toledo, OH: St. John Printing House), 1881. {{ISBN|9781152782358}}
  • {{cite book |last=Dyer |first=Frederick Henry |author-link=Frederick H. Dyer |title=A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion |publisher=Dyer Pub. Co. |place=Des Moines, IA |date=1908 |asin=B01BUFJ76Q |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OBkNAQAAMAAJ/page/1503/mode/1up?view=theater |format=PDF |access-date=August 8, 2015 |page=1502}}{{PD-notice}}
  • Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895.
  • Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. {{ISBN|9781154801965}}

;Attribution

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