17th Louisiana Infantry
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- September 29, 1861 - Organized at Camp Moore
- September 29 - Mustered into Confederate Service at Camp Moore
- April 6-7, 1862 - Shiloh
- April-June 1862 - Corinth Campaign
- May 18-July 27, 1862 - Vicksburg Bombardments
- December 27-29, 1862 - Chickasaw Bayou
- May 1, 1863 - Port Gibson
- May-July 1863 - Vicksburg Campaign
- May-July 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
- July 4, 1863 - Surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
- Paroled there later that month
- September 12, 1863 - Declared exchanged
- January 26, 1864 - Members of the regiment east of the Mississippi River were consolidated at Enterprise, Mississippi with similar portions of the:
- May 1864 - Balance of the regiment reorganized at Minden, Louisiana
- May 26, 1865 - Surrendered by General E.K. Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department
DESIGNATIONS
- Department #1 / Ruggles' Brigade (September 1861-February 1862)
- Department #2 / Ruggles' Brigade (February-March 1862)
- Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Grand Division / 1st Corps / Pond's Brigade (March 1862)
- Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Ruggles'/Anderson's Division / Anderson's Brigade (March-May 1862)
- Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / Smith's Brigade (June-July 1862)
- Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / 2nd/3rd Sub-District (July-October 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (October 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District (October-December 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Lee's Provisional Division / Thomas' Brigade (December 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Unattached (December 1862-January 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Smith's Division / Lee's Brigade (January-February 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Smith's Division / Baldwin's Brigade (March-April 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Smith's Division / Baldwin's Brigade (April-July 1863)
- Trans-Mississippi Department / District of West Louisiana / Polignac's Division / Thomas' Brigade (May-September 1864)
- Trans-Mississippi Department / 1st Corps / 2nd (Polignac's/Thomas') Division / 1st (Thomas') Louisiana Brigade (September 1864-May 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: S.S. Heard (Colonel)
- Charles Jones (Lieutenant Colonel)
- Robert B. Jones (Major)
- William A. Maddox (Major)
- William A. Redditt (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
- Robert Richardson (Colonel)
- Madison Rogers (Lieutenant Colonel)
- David W. Self (Major)
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Notes
Sources
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Louisiana. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 102-103)
- Small, J.A., Memories of the Civil War as Remembered by an Old Veteran