Clark County WI, Civil War History

14th Wisconsin Infantry

Contributed by Greg E. Riplinger, transcribed by Janet.

REGIMENTAL HISTORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Service

Organized at Camp Wood, Fond du Lac, Wis., and mustered in January 30, 1862.  Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 8, thence moved to Savannah, Tenn., March 23-28.  Served unattached Army of the Tennessee to May, 1863.  2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, May, 1862.  Provost guard at Pittsburg Landing and Hamburg Landing, Tenn.  Unattached, Army of the Tennessee, to August, 1862.  2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., Army of the Tennessee, to November, 1862.  2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Left Wing, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.  2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January 1863.  2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to March 1864.  2nd Brigade, Provisional Divisional, 17th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to June, 1864.  (Veterans attached to the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps.  Army of the Tennessee, April to November, 1864).  Detached Brigade, 17th Army Corps and 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to August, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865.  1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division of West Mississippi, to March 1865.  2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to August, 1865.  District of Alabama to October, 1865.

SERVICE-- Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1862.  Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.  Provost duty at Pittsburg Landing Tenn., till July 23, and at Hamburg till August 23.  Moved to Corinth August 23.  Battle of Iekn, Miss., September 19.  Battle of Corinth, Miss, October 3-4.  Pursuit of Ripley Oct. 5-12.  At Corinth till November 2.  Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign.  Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad November 2 to December 23.  Moved to Moscow and duty along Memphis and Charleston Railroad till January 10, 1863.  Moved to Memphis January 10, thence to Young's Point La.  January 17 and to Lake Providence, La., February 8.  Duty there till April Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.  Battle of Champion's Hill May 16.  Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4.  Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.  Expedition to Mechanicsville May 26-June 4.  Moved to Natchez, Miss., July 12.  Capture of Natchez July 13 and duty there till October 9.  Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., October 9 and duty there till March, 1864.  Regiment veteranized December 11, 1863, and Veterans on furlough January 3 to March 6, 1864.  (Company "E" and Veteran detachments from each Company joined 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, at Clifton, Tenn., thence march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., April 29-June 8.  Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 8 to September 8.  Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.  Assault on Kennesaw June 27.  Nickajack Creek July 2-5.  Chattahoochee River July 5-17.  Howell's Ferry July 5.  Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21.  Battle of Atlanta July 22.  Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.  Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.  Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.  Lovejoy Station September 2-6.  Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3-26.  Rejoined Regiment at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1864, except Company "E," which went as a pontoon train guard to the the sea November 15-December10, and through the Carolinas to Washington, D. C. rejoining Regiment at Montgomery, Ala., July 16, 1865.)  Non-veterans on Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864.  Red River Campaign March 10-May 22, 1864.  Fort De Russy March 14.  Occupation of Alexandria March 16.  Grand Ecore April 3.  Pleasant Hill Landing April 12.  About Cloutersville April 22-24.  About Alexandria April 26-May 13.  Wells' Plantation May 6, Bayou Boeuf  May 7.  Retreat to Morganza.  May 13-20.  Mansura May 16.  Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May 20-24, thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 28-30, and duty there till June 22.  Moved to Moscow and LaGrange June 22-27, Smith's expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21.  Camargo's Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13.  Harrisburg, near Tupelo, July 14-15.  Moved to St. Charles, Ark., August 3-6, thence to Devall's Bluff September 1, and to Brownsville September 8.  March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price September 17-November 17.  Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 22-30.  Battle of Nashville December 15-16.  Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.  Moved to Eastport, Miss., and duty there till February 6-22.  Campaign against Mobile and its Defences March 17-April 12.  Fish River March 17.  Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.  Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.  Occupation of Mobile April 12.  March to Montgomery April 13-25 and duty there till August.  Moved to Mobile August 27 and duty there till October.  Muster out October 9, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 116 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 194 Enlisted men by disease.  Total 319.

Regimental Statistics

Original Strength, 970;

Gain -- by recruits in 1863, 60, in 1864, 489, in 1865, 41; by substitutes, 85; by draft in 1864, 200, in 1865, 115; by veteran reenlistment, 272; total, 2,182;

Loss -- by death, 287; missing, 13; deserted, 97; transferred, 23; discharged, 407; mustered out, 1,355.

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