Pennsylvania 114th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
01/08/1862
Organized - Pennsylvania 114th Volunteer Infantry - Pennsylvania
09/08/1862
Battle - Cedar Mountain - Culpeper County, Virginia
Maj. Gen. John Pope was placed in command of the newly-constituted Army of Virginia on June 26th. Pope's orders were to defend Washington DC and Union-held northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan battled Robert E. Lee outside of Richmond. When McClellan was defeated at the end of the Seven Days battles less than a week later, Lee turned his attention north toward Pope while McClellan regrouped his army. Pope's three army corps were arrayed in a line from the Blu…READ MORE
13/12/1862
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
30/04/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Charles H. T. Collis, and Lieutenant Colonel Frederick F. Cavada
ColonelCharles H. T. Collis
Lieutenant ColonelFrederick F. Cavada
30/04/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Charles K. Graham, and Colonel Thomas W. Egan
Brigadier GeneralCharles K. Graham
ColonelThomas W. Egan
30/04/1863
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain Edward R. Bowen, and Lieutenant Colonel Frederick F. Cavada
CaptainEdward R. Bowen
Lieutenant ColonelFrederick F. Cavada
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Charles K. Graham, Colonel Andrew H. Tippin, and Colonel Henry J. Madill
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward, and Major General David B. Birney
Brigadier GeneralJ. H. Hobart Ward
Major GeneralDavid B. Birney
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick F. Cavada
Lieutenant ColonelFrederick F. Cavada
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Charles K. Graham
Brigadier GeneralCharles K. Graham
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier GeneralJ. H. Hobart Ward
01/07/1863
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
13/10/1863
Battle - First Auburn - Fauquier County, Virginia
Federal and Confederate cavalry engaged at the First Battle of Auburn on October 13, and left General James Ewell Brown Stuart's men trapped. Stuart concealed 3,000 men in a ravine overnight before getting word to Lee. Lee sent General Richard S. Ewell to Stuart's aid, and his force engaged a Federal rearguard under General Gouverneur K. Warren in the Second Battle of Auburn on October 14.READ MORE
13/10/1863
Battle - Auburn, Virginia
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Charles H. T. Collis
ColonelCharles H. T. Collis
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - undefined Bvt BG Frederick Winthrop, and Colonel James G. Grindlay
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Division - undefined Bvt MG Romeyn B. Ayres
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - undefined Bvt BG Frederick Winthrop
01/04/1865
Battle - Five Forks - Five Forks, Virginia
The Union victory along the White Oak Road on March 31st threatened to destabilize the entire Confederate line west of Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee ordered Maj. Gen. George Pickett with his infantry division and the cavalry divisions of Col. Thomas Munford, Maj. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, and Maj. Gen Thomas Rosser to hold the vital crossroads of Five Forks, along the White Oak Road five miles west of the previous fighting there. Pickett's defensive line was not well constructed, and much of his cavalry force w…READ MORE
02/04/1865
Battle - Third Petersburg - Dinwiddie County, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia
With the Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1st, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George Meade ordered a general assault against the Petersburg lines by the Second, Ninth, Sixth and Twenty-Fourth Corps to take place April 2nd. In the pre-dawn darkness, the Union infantry gained a successful breakthrough where Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright's advancing Sixth Corps met the Confederate lines held by Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill near the Boydton Plank Road. Hill was killed trying to reach his troops in t…READ MORE
29/05/1865
Mustered Out - Pennsylvania 114th Volunteer Infantry - Pennsylvania
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