Fourteenth U.S. Infantry

As part of the Army of the Potomac's Fifth Corps, Second Division, First Brigade, the Fourteenth U.S. Infantry, eight companies under Captain Crotius R. Giddings, arrived on July 2 in the morning and took position near the Twelfth Corps on the right. It then moved with the division from the right to the left of the line and at 5 P.M. moved with the brigade across Plum Run near Little Round Top, supporting the Second Brigade in its advance to the crest of the rocky wooded hill beyond. Facing left, it engaged the Confederates, but retired under heavy fire on both flanks and from the rear after the Confederates gained possession of the Wheatfield in the rear of the brigade, then went into position on Little Round Top. On July 3 it remained in the same position. On July 4 the regiment, with the 12th, supported the 2d, 4th, and 6th U.S. Infantry in a reconnaissance and developed a force of Confederate infantry and artillery in front. Its casualties were 18 men killed, 2 officers and 108 men wounded, and 4 men missing.

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