During the famous march from Catlett's Station to Falmouth Va., April 15th 1862, the First Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps, won the title of the "Iron Brigade."
The first Iron Brigade, to which the Fourteenth belonged, lost more soldiers trough death or injury in one battle (the Second Manassas) than the British Light Brigade did at the Battle of Balaklava, which was immortalized in the famous Tennyson poem.