17th Kansas Infantry Regiment

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

17th Kansas Infantry Regiment
Active	July 28, 1864 – November 16, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

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

See also

• List of Kansas Civil War Units
• Kansas in the Civil War

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

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

• History of the 17th Kansas Infantry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard