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17th Maine Infantry

Muster In: August 18, 1862
Muster Out: June 4, 1865
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
  • Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863
  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
  • Wapping Heights, VA - July 21 - 23, 1863
  • Catlett's Station, VA - October 14, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
  • Kelly's Ford, VA - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
  • Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863
  • Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864
  • Po river, VA - May 9 - 11, 1864 (Spotsylvania Campaign)
  • Spotsylvania, VA - May 7 - 20, 1864
  • North Anna, VA - May 23 - 27, 1864
  • Totopotomy, VA - May 26, - 30, 1864
  • Cold Harbor, VA - May 31 - June 12, 1864
  • Petersburg, VA Seige - June 1864
  • Jerusalem Plank Road, VA - June 22 - 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Deep Bottom, VA - August 14, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Poplar Spring Church, VA - September 30 - October 2, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Fort Hell, VA - (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Boydton Road, VA - October 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Deatonsville, VA - April 6, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
  • Saylors Creek, VA - April 6, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
  • Farmville, VA - April 7, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
  • Appomattox, VA - April 9, 1865

    Casualties

    1,371 Enrollment
    207 killed
    552 wounded
    163 died of disease
    31 in Confederate Prisons

    Re-enlisted men and recruits transferred to 1st Regiment Maine Heavy Artillery, June 1865.

    The 17th Maine Regiment sustained the heaviest battle losses of any Maine Infantry Regiment.

    Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

  • Civil War Correspondence
  • Civil War Index for Soldiers and Sailors
  • Civil War Muster Rolls
  • Civil War Obituaries
  • Civil War Photos (Mostly Officers)
  • Cemetery Index
  • General Law Pension
  • Graves Registration Cards

    Civil War Records Unique to the Seventeenth Maine Infantry

  • Recruits, 1862 (Box 53)

  • Clothing List, Charles Ricker, 1862 (Box 162)
  • Muster In and Descriptive Rolls, 1863, 64, 65 (Box 162)
  • Rejected Men, 1862, 63, 64 (Box 161)

  • Clothing Books - 6 Volumes, 1862-1865
  • Consolidated Morning Report, 1862-65
  • Hospital Returns, September 1863
  • Post War Post Office Addresses
  • Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 18th - 1862
  • Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 19th - 1863
  • Regimental Returns - 17th, 19th, 20th - 1864
  • Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men
  • Newpaper article on life in rebel prisons, re: Gen. Charles P. Mattocks, donated by Gen. Selden Connor, 1895
  • Record of Hiram B. Phillips, Co. K, donated by Lt. Edwin A. Duncan, 1895 (2 pages)
  • Record of Lt. Edwin A. Duncan by Lt. Edwin A. Duncan, 1895 (3 pages)
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