14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

The 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The first two battalions of the 14th Illinois Cavalry were mustered into service at Peoria, Illinois, on January 7, 1863.

The third battalion was mustered at Peoria on February 6, 1863.

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 23 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 190 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 215 fatalities.

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John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. He was a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Georgia , and lost his feet from scurvy and gangrene . From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress