The 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry

Cavalry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

Companies A, B, C, and D of the 14th Kentucky Cavalry were organized at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky and mustered in for one year on November 6, 1862. The remaining companies were organized at Irvine, Kentucky

Irvine, Kentucky

Irvine is a city in and county seat of Estill County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 2,843 at the 2000 census. It is located on the Kentucky River at the junction of Kentucky Route 52 and Kentucky Route 89....

 on August 21, 1862 and mustered in on February 13, 1863. It mustered in under the command of Colonel

Colonel (United States)

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 Henry C. Lilly.

The regiment was attached to District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio

Department of the Ohio

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, 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. Owensburg September 19–20, 1862. Brookville September 28. Operations in Bath, Estill, Powell, Clark, Montgomery, and Boonsborough 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.

See also

• List of Kentucky Civil War Units
• Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when he declared "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." In a September 1861 letter to Orville Browning, Lincoln wrote "I think to lose...
  
  

External links

• Alphabetical roster of the 14th Kentucky Cavalry created by the Knott County Historical Society (Archived 2009-10-19)