UNION KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS

17th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry 


-Organized at Hartford and Calhoun, Ky., September to December, 1861. 
-Attached to 13th Brigade, Army of Ohio, to December, 1861. 
-13th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Ohio, to February, 1862. 
-1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to March, 1862. 
-3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1862. 
-10th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to July, 1862. 
-9th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Ohio, to September, 1862. 
-District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio, to November, 1862. 
-Post of Clarksville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1863.
-1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 
-3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, to January, 1865.


SERVICE

-Duty at Calhoun, Ky., till February, 1862. 
-Action at Woodbury, Ky., October 29, 1861. 
-Morgantown October 31.
-Moved to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 11-13.
- Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 13-16. 
-Expedition to Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 14-17. 
-Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. 
-Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. 
-Bridge Creek before Corinth May 28. 
-Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. 
-Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. 
-March to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. 
-Moved to Bowling Green, Ky., thence to Russellsville, Ky., and duty there till December. 
-Ordered to Clarksville, Tenn., and duty there till March, 1863. 
-Moved to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and duty there till June.
-Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7. 
-At McMinnville till August 16. 
-Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. 
-Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. 
-Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. 
-Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
-Orchard Knob November 23-24. 
-Mission Ridge November 25. 
-March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8. 
-Operations in East Tennessee December, 1863, to April, 1864. 
-Moved to Cleveland, Tenn. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. 
-Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. 
-Battle of Resaca May 14-15. 
-Adairsville May 17. 
-Near Kingston May 18-19. 
-Near Cassville May 19. 
-Advance on Dallas May 22-25. 
-Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. 
-Pickett's Mills May 27. Ackworth June 6. 
-Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
-Pine Hill June 11-14. 
-Lost Mountain June 15-17. 
-Assault on Kenesaw June 26. 
-Ruff's Station July 4. 
-Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 
-Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. 
-Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. 
-Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. 
-Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. 
-Lovejoy Station September 2-6. 
-Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. 
-Moved to Nashville and Pulaski, Tenn. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. 
Battle of Franklin November 30. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., December, and mustered out January 23, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 128 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 158 Enlisted men
 by disease. Total 298.