The 14th Tennessee Infantry Regiment was formed with eleven companies at Camp Duncan, near Clarksville, Tennessee in May of 1861. Company F was disbanded in May of 1863, and its 32 men transferred to Company E. The soldiers of the regiment were recruited in the counties of Montgomery, Robertson, and Stewart.
Ordered to Virginia, the 14th Tennessee participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign and for a time served under Thomas J. Jackson. It was later attached successively to the brigades of Generals Anderson, Hatton, Archer, and McComb.
The 14th Tennessee was prominent in many battles and skirmishes fought by of the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, the Petersburg campaign south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. The regiment sustained 84 casualties during the Seven Day's Battles, 33 at Cedar Mountain, 48 at Second Manassas, 59 at Fredericksburg, and 35 at Chancellorsville. Of the 220 officers and soldiers of the regiment engaged at Gettysburg, over fifty percent were casualties. At Appomattox the 14th Tennessee surrendered 6 officers and 34 men.
Its field officers were Colonels William A. Forbes and William McComb; Lieutenant Colonels Nathan Brandon, Milton G. Gholson, G.A. Harrell, and James W. Lockert; and Majors James H. Johnson and Nathan M. Morris.
