- Source: 14th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (Union)
The 14th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
Companies A, B, C, and D of the 14th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment were organized at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky and mustered in for one year on November 6, 1862. The remaining companies were organized at Irvine, Kentucky, on August 21, 1862, and mustered in on February 13, 1863. It mustered in under the command of Colonel Henry C. Lilly.
The regiment was attached to District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1863. District of North Central Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to January 1864. District of Southwest Kentucky to March 1864.
The 14th Kentucky Cavalry mustered out of service beginning September 16, 1863 and ending March 24, 1864.
Detailed service
Assigned to duty scouting in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and operating against guerrillas until January 1864. Oweningville September 19–20, 1862. Brookville September 28. Operations in Bath, Estill, Powell, Clark, Montgomery, and Owsley counties October 16–25. Perry County, Kentucky River, November 8. Johnson County December 1. Floyd County December 4. Powell County December 26, 1862, and January 26, 1863. Mt. Sterling March 22. Slate Creek, near Mt. Sterling, June 11. Mud Lick Springs, Bath County, June 13. Operations against Everett's Raid in eastern Kentucky June 13–23. Triplett's Bridge June 16. Operations against Scott in eastern Kentucky July 25-August 6. Irvine and Estill counties, July 30. Lancaster and Paint Lick Bridge July 31. Lancaster August 1.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 80 men during service; 14 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 64 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
Colonel Henry C. Lilly
See also
List of Kentucky Civil War Units
Kentucky in the Civil War
References
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Attribution
This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
External links
Alphabetical roster of the 14th Kentucky Cavalry created by the Knott County Historical Society (Archived 2009-10-19)
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- 14th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (Union)
- 3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States)
- 17th Cavalry Regiment
- 4th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
- 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
- 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment
- List of Kentucky Confederate Civil War units
- Kentucky in the American Civil War
- Battle of Cove Mountain
- Confederate Government Civil War units
