OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 14th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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For: blondee@ldd.net

Hi Sharon,
   Here's the balance of the 6 different regiments cocerned in
your request:

                   Regiment History      
                 OHIO FOURTEENTH INFANTRY 
                      (Three Years) 

Fourteenth Infantry.(Three Years' Service.) Cols., James B.
Steedman, George P. Este; Lieut.Cols., Paul Edwards, Henry D.
Kingsbury, Albert Moore; Maj., John W. Wilson. This regiment
was organized at Toledo, from Aug. 14 to Sept. 5, 1861, to
serve for three years. It first saw service in Kentucky and in
October went into quarters at Camp Dick Robinson. About this
time rumors were rife that the Federal forces stationed at or
near Wild Cat were surrounded by the Confederates.The 14th,
with Barnet's 1st Ohio artillery, started at once for that
place, making forced marches through the deep mud and driving
rain, and reached there on the morning of Oct. 21. On nearing
the battlefield the crash of musketry and artillery was heard.
This spur- red the excited troops, who were going into their
first engagement, and they double quicked to the point of
attack. The enemy shortly abandoned the field and retreated.
In the charge which carried the works at Mill Springs the 14th
was the first regiment to enter, and pushing on after the
flying enemy it reached the bank of the river in time to fire
into the rear of the retreating column as it was boarding the
steamer. The regiment was with the army that shared in the
slow advance upon Corinth. It was in the march from Nashville
to Louis- ville, but on Oct.9 the brigade with which it was
acting was detailed to guard headquarters and the ammunition
train, and hence did not participate in the battle of
Perryville. The following winter was spent at Gallatin and
other points in middle Tennessee, and in June, 1863, the
regiment formed a portion of Rosecrans,advance on Tullahoma
and Chattanooga. At Hoover's gap a brisk engagement ensued, in
which the 14th participated with its brigade. On Sept. 19 it
marched upon the field at Chickamauga and was immediately
deployed in line of bat- tle. The men were not in the best
trim to engage in a fatiguing day's work, having marched
incessantly all the previous day and night, but they were
ready and willing to perform their whole duty and they did it
nobely. The regiment was engaged in hot and close contest with
the enemy from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Being then relieved, it
replenished its ammunition boxes and again entered the fight,
continuing until sunset. The regiment went into the battle
with 449 men,and out of that number it lost 233, killed,
wounded and missing. In the brilliant assault on Missionary
ridge the 14th bore a gallant part, charging and capturing a
Confederate battery of 3 guns, which Gen. Hardee in person was
superintending, losing 16 killed, 91 wounded and 3 missing. Of
those that were eligible, all but 30 men of the entire
regiment reenlisted for another term of three years and after
a 30-days' furlough home it rejoined the army at
Ringgold,Ga.,and commenced that long, fatiguing campaign for
the possession of Atlanta, the "gate city," of the South. In
all the marches and the almost incessant skirmishes and
flanking movements of that campaign it bore an honorable part,
losing heavily in men and officers.While lying in front of
Atlanta the regiment lost 20 men, killed and wounded. In that
heroic charge at Jonesboro the 14th took nearly as many
prisoners as the regiment numbered men, a battery of 4
guns,several stands of colors, and two lines of trenches full
of Confederates. All this was not accomplished without sad
cost. One hundred members of the regiment whose time had
expired went willingly into this fight, some of whom were
killed and many wounded. It next followed Hood into Tennessee
and then returned and participa- ted in the "march to the
sea." It was mustered out of the service at Louisville, Ky.,
July 1, 1865. 
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2 

The Union Army A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65
-- Records of the Regiments in the Union Army -- Cyclopedia of Battles -- 
Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. 8 vols. 
Madison: Federal Publishing, 1908.


Bob


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