WHO ARE

Re-enactors and muzzle loading shooters; we are people united by a common passion for history and also if coming from different periods of re-enactment, from the Napoleonic era to the II WW, we formed on 2005 in this association to seek there and to reconstruct through the deeds of "14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment" an event, the American Civil War (1861-65), that has nothing to deal apparently with the European history but, saw instead a strong participation of men and women, our fellow countrymen immigrants.
We decided for a regiment of Louisiana mostly because in this state of the Confederacy there were an high presence of immigrants that choose the "new world" confident to restart afresh in an earth rich in hopes and opportunities.
The association "14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, G Company" is an apolitical and no-profit group formed by different people for: age, job and geographical origin tied by common passions and by common ideals.
For contacts: info@rievocazioni-guerra-civile.it

PURPOSES

The purpose of association "14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, G Co." is to explore whatever cultural, social and technological aspect of the period of which occupies there. The objective is to get this trying to reconstruct an infantry unit of confederate soldiers from the American Civil War trying in this way to enter in a different optics of historical research. Starting from the study and the common comparison on literature, documents, memories and photos of the time we try to move to the real and tangible aspects, this is what brings us to wear the uniforms, to climb on the tents and to live for some times as the men who really were involved in that bloody conflict.
To us re-enactment does not mean only to recreate a photo but rather to seek the fidelity of the reconstruction, of the uniforms, of the weapons, of the commands and of the movements all that based on the military regulations of the time. Ours goal is pursued with the maximum effort, in the most possibly accurate way, looking for a continuous improvement, in order to express the historical reality to the best.

History of the Real 14th Louisiana Infantry

Raised on June 1861 and composed by men of different nationalities among which: Italian, Irish, French, Polish and others, the14th Louisiana was formed on August 24th 1861 at Camp Pulaski, near Amite (La.), with the numeration of 13th Louisiana Volunteers.
The regiment was soon sent to the front of the Virginia and it reached Yorktown on September 1861.
On September 21st 1861 the department of the war changed the numeration of the regiment that became the 14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and so entered in effective service in the Northern Virginia Army.
The regiment fought in the defense of Yorktown (April 1862), taking part to the battle of Williamsburg (5 May) and limitedly also to the battle of Seven Pines (just on June 1st).
In the following days, during the seven days campaign, the 14th was also participating to the battles of Mechanicsville (26 June), Gaines ' Mill (27 June), Frayser's farm (30 June). During this campaign the regiment suffered 243 losses among dead, wounded and prisoners.
On July 26 the 14th was inserted in the first brigade of Louisiana together with 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th regiment.
During the battle of Cedar Mountain (9 August) it had only a brief skirmish.
In the campaign of 2dn Manassas the 14thLouisiana fought in the battle of Bristoe Station (26 August), Kattle Run (27 August) and 2nd Manassas (29-30 August); the casualties were 49.
At Antietam (17 September) the regiment suffered 53 losses.
On October 1862 the 14th joined the second brigade of Louisiana with 1st, 2nd, 10th, 15th regiments and from that moment on it served always framed in this unit.
At the battle in Fredericksburg (13 December) the regiment was in reserve having just a brief skirmish the next day.
During the battle of Chancerrolsville (May 2-3, 1863) the second brigade of Louisiana participated at the attack of the Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson toward the side of the Union army. In the battle of Winchester (15 June) the regiment captured over 300 men of the 67th Pennsylvania.
During the battle of Gettysburg (1-3 July) the 14th participated in the assault of Culp's Hill (2-3 July) where it brought 65 losses.
When the army of Gen. R. E. Lee returned in Virginia the regiment participated at the campaign of Bristoe Station (9-22 October). In the battle of Payne's Farm it had 28 fallen.
Taken part to the battles of Wilderness (May 5th 1864) and Spotsylvania (9-20 May) where on May 12, during a raid of the Federal army in the trenches of the brigade, the regiment had many captured men.
After a brief clash with the enemies at Cold Harbor (1-3 June), the second brigade entered in the army of the Shenandoah Valley of Gen. Jubal Early.
The men of 14th fought in all the battles of that army from July to October.
The regiment suffered so many losses that from the end of October it was consolidated with the survivors of the 1st Louisiana in an only regiment. The second brigade returned in the North Virginia army in December 1864 at Petersburg where it stayed in the trenches in defense of the city until the evacuation in April 1865.
At Appomattox, April 9th 1865, the 14th Louisiana surrendered with a total strength of 2 officers and 25 soldiers.