17th Iowa Infantry Regiment

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| image=Flag of Iowa.svg

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|caption=Iowa state flag

|dates= March 21, 1862, to July 25, 1865

|country= United States

|allegiance= Union

|branch= Infantry

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|battles=Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Champion Hill
Battle of Big Black River Bridge
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
Sherman's March to the Sea

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

Service

The 17th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, 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 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 121 enlisted men 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 Burke HillisIowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
Lieutenant Colonel Simpson (aka Sampson, Samson) M. Archer{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=FB02EB7B-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A|title=Simpson M. Archer|work=Civil War Soldiers|publisher=National Park Service}}

File:20-13-353-vicksburg.jpg|Unit position marker at Vicksburg National Military Park

Notes

References

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

Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa

Category:Military units and formations established in 1862

Category:1862 establishments in Iowa

Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865