17th New York (Veteran) Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Staten Island, N.Y., June 13 to October 17, 1863. Two Companies under Captain Horner. Moved to Fort Hamilton, N.Y., September 2, 1863. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 18, 1863. Moved to Louisville, Ky., thence to Eastport, Miss., and Columbus, Ky., October 28-November 8, 1863. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to January, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to August,1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Union City, Tenn., December 11, 1863, to January 24, 1864. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., January 24. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Operations in Alabama and duty at Decatur, Ala., April 10 to August 4. Pond Springs, near Courtland, May 27. Pond Springs June 29. Courtland July 25. Ordered to Atlanta, Ga., August 4. Siege of Atlanta August 8-25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3-26.

• November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
  • Sandersville November 26.
  • December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Averysboro, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 9-13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Duty in Dept. of Washington, attached to 1st Brigade, Bartlett's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to July. Mustered out July 13, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 51 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 56 Enlisted men by disease. Total 109.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 721, 723, 1411-1412)