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17th Kansas Infantry Regiment

FieldValue
unit_name17th Kansas Infantry Regiment
datesJuly 28, 1864 – November 16, 1864
countryUnited States
allegianceUnion
branchInfantry

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

Service

The 17th Kansas Infantry was organized at Camp Deitzler in Leavenworth, Kansas. Only five companies mustered in on July 28, 1864, at Fort Leavenworth for 100 days under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Adams Drake. The regiment was attached to District of North Kansas.

The 17th Kansas Infantry mustered out November 16, 1864.

Detailed service

Company A ordered to Fort Riley, Company C to Cottonwood Falls and Company D to Lawrence. Operations against Price October–November. March to relief of Mound City.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 4 enlisted men during service, all due to disease.

Commanders

  • Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Adams Drake

References

  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
  • Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion (Leavenworth, KS: W. S. Burke), 1870. ;Attribution
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