14th Vermont Infantry The 14th Regiment , Vermont Volunteer Infantry ( or 14th VVI ) was a nine months ' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . It served in the eastern theater , predominantly in the Defenses of Washington , from October 1862 to August 1863 . It was a member of the 2nd Vermont Brigade . History . The 14th Vermont Infantry , a nine months regiment , raised as a result of President Lincoln ' s call on August 4 , 1862 , for additional troops due to the disastrous results of the Peninsula Campaign . It was composed of volunteers from Addison , Rutland and Bennington Counties , as follows : The regiment ' s commander , Colonel William T . Nichols , of Rutland , had served with the 1st Vermont Infantry . Lieutenant Colonel Charles W . Rose , of Middlebury , had also served in the 1st regiment . The 14th regiment went into camp at Brattleboro on October 6 , 1862 , and was mustered into United States service on October 21 . It left Vermont on October 22 , and arrived in Washington , D . C . on October 25 ; the next day it joined the 12th Vermont Infantry and some Maine regiments in Camp Chase , in Arlington , Virginia , then returned to camp on East Capital Hill , and on October 30 became part of the 2nd Vermont Brigade . The regiment marched to Munson ' s Hill on October 30 , and Hunting Creek on November 5 , where it stayed until November 26 . It performed picket duty at Occoquan Creek from November 26 , to December 5 , when it moved to " Camp Vermont " until December 12 . It engaged in further picket duty near Fairfax Courthouse until January 20 , 1863 , subsequently moving to Fairfax Station until March 24 . From March 24 to June 25 , it was at Wolf Run Shoals , Union Mills , and on the Occoquan . On June 25 , the brigade was assigned as the 3rd Brigade , 3rd Division , I Corps , and ordered to form the rear guard of the Army of the Potomac as it marched north after Robert E . Lee ' s Army of Northern Virginia . The 14th marched with the brigade from Wolf Run Shoals on June 25 , crossed the Potomac river on June 27 , at Edward ' s Ferry , and moved north through Frederick City and Creagerstown , Maryland . On the morning of July 1 , it left Westminster , Maryland , arrived on the battlefield at Gettysburg after dark on the first day of the battle , and camped in a wheat field to the left of Cemetery Hill . Gettysburg . On the afternoon of July 2 , the 14th double - quicked to the rescue of a Union battery that was threatened by an attack by Confederate General A . P . Hill . The 13th , 14th and 16th Vermont regiments played a pivotal role in the Union repulse of Pickett ' s Charge on the afternoon of July 3 . The 13th and 16th regiments flanked James L . Kemper ' s brigade as it approached the copse of trees on Cemetery Ridge , then the 16th wheeled about , and joined by the 14th , stopped the advance of Cadmus M . Wilcox ' s brigade , capturing hundreds of Virginians . Lieutenant George Benedict , an aide to Brigadier General George J . Stannard , related General Abner Doubleday ' s reaction , saying he " waved his hat and shouted : ' Glory to God , glory to God ! See the Vermonters go it ! ' " After the battle , the 14th regiment participated in the pursuit of Lee ' s Army of Northern Virginia across the Catoctin mountains to Middletown , Maryland , then back over South Mountain , through Boonesboro , to Williamsport by July 14 . The regiment marched to Harper ' s Ferry , across South Mountain again , and camped near Petersville , near Berlin . On July 18 , the regiment was released , took a train from Berlin to Baltimore . It reached New York City on July 20 . General Edward Canby , who commanded a small number of troops trying to contain the Draft riots that had been raging for four days , asked Colonel Nicholson to hold his regiment in the city for a few days . Colonel Nichols gathered his regiment and made an impassioned plea for them to remain , but the men demurred . The regiment continued its trip home , arrived in Brattleboro on July 21 , and mustered out on July 30 . Like the other regiments in the 2nd Vermont Brigade , dozens of newly discharged members from the 14th regiment enlisted again , predominantly in the regiments of the 1st Vermont Brigade , and the 17th Vermont Infantry .