17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 17th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa state flag
dates= March 21, 1862 to July 25, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea

The 17th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 17th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on April 16, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 25, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 17th Iowa mustered 958 men at the time it left Iowa for active campaigning. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil501.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1] It suffered 5 officers and 66 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 121 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 194 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#17th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Commanders

*Colonel John W. Rankin
*Colonel David Hillis [Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]

ee also

*List of Iowa Civil War Units
*Iowa in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]


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