17TH MISSOURI VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
REGIMENT
ORDER OF BATTLE
AND
BATTLE CHRONOLOGY
Attached, Army of the West
Oct 1861 - Jan 1862
Second Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri Jan 1862 - March1862
First Brigade, First Division,
Army of March 1862 - May 1862
Southwest Missouri
Third Division, Army of Southwest Missouri May 1862 - July 1862
Attached, District of Eastern
Arkansas, July 1862 - Nov 1862
Department of Missouri
First Brigade, First Division,
District of Nov 1862
Eastern Arkansas, Department
of
Missouri
First Brigade, First Division,
District Nov 1862 - Dec 1862
of Eastern Arkansas
Second Brigade, Fourth Division,
Yazoo Dec 11862 - Jan 1863
Expeditionary Corps
Second brigade, First Division,
XV Corps Jan 1863 - Sept 1863
Army of the Tennessee
First brigade, First Division,
XV Corps, Sept 1863 - Dec 1863
Army of the Tennessee
Third Brigade, First Division,
XV Corps, Dec 1863 - Dec 1864
Army of the Tennessee
Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo (1) Oct15 - Nov18,1861
Advance on Springfield, Mo (1) Feb 2 - 24, 1862
Pursuit of Price into Arkansas Feb 14 - 28, 1862
Battle, Pea Ridge, Ark (2) March 6 - 8 1862
March to Batesville, Ark (3) April 5 - May 3 1862
Skirmish, Searcy Landing, Ark (4) May 19, 1862
March to Helena, Ark (5) May 27 - July 14 1862
Expedition from Helena (5) to
the Mouth of Aug 5 - 8, 1862
the White River, Ark
Movement to Ironton (6) and Pilot Knob (7), Mo Sept 1, 1862
Expedition to St Genevieve Mo (8) Nov 12, 1862
Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, Miss Dec 22, 1862 - Jan 3,1863
Engagement, Chickasaw Bayou, Miss (9) Dec 26 - 28 1862
Engagement, Chickasaw Bluff, Miss (9) Dec 29, 1862
Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark (10) Jan 3 - 10 1863
Assault and Capture, Fort Hindman,
Arkansas Jan 10 - 11, 1863
Post (10), Ark
Movement to Young's Point, La (11) Jan 17 - 23, 1863
Expedition to Greenville (12),
Black Bayou, April 2 - 14 1863
and Deer Creek, Miss
Demonstration on Haines (13) and
Drumgould's April 29 - May 2, 1863
Bluffs (14), Miss
Movement to Vicksburg, Miss (15)
by way of May 2 - 14, 1863
Richmond, La (16) and Grand Gulf
(17),
Miss
Skirmish, Mississippi Springs, miss (18) May 12 - 13, 1863
Engagement, Jackson, Miss (19) May 14, 1863
Siege, Vicksburg, Miss (15) May 18 - July 4 1863
Assault, Vicksburg, Miss (15) May 19, 1863
Assault, Vicksburg, Miss (15) May 22, 1863
Surrender, Vicksburg, miss (15) July 4, 1863
Advance on Jackson, Miss (19) July 5 - 10, l863
Siege, Jackson, Miss (19) July 10 - 17, l863
Skirmish, Bolton's Depot, Miss (20) July 16 1863
Skirmish Briar Creek near Canton, Miss (21) July 17, 1863
Skirmish, Canton, Miss (21) July 18, 1863
Movement to Chattanooga, tenn (22) Sept 27 - Nov 21,1863
Operations on the Memphis &
Charleston R R, Oct 20 - 29 1863
Ala
Action, Cherokee Station, Ala (23) Oct 21, 1863
Skirmish, Cane Creek,Ala (24) Oct 26, 1863
Skirmish, Cherokee Station, Ala (33) Oct 29, 1863
Engagement, Tuscumbia Ala (25) Oct 29-30, 1863
Campaign, Chattanooga, Tenn (22)
and Nov 23 - 27 1863
Ringgold, Ga (26)
Engagement, Lookout Mountain, Tenn (27) Nov 23 - 24, 1863
Assault and Capture, Missionary Ridge, Tenn (28) Nov 25, 1863
Engagement, Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, Ga (29) Nov 27, 1863
March to the relief of Knoxville, Tenn (30) Nov 28 - dec 8 1863
Atlanta Campaign May l - sept 8 1864
Demonstration on Resaca, Ga (31) May 14 - 19 1864
Advance on Dallas, Ga (32) May 18 - 25 1864
Operations o the line of Pumpkin
Vine Creek May 25 - June 5 1864
(33) and Battles about Dallas
(32),
New Hope Church (34), and Allatoona
' Hills (35) Ga
Operations about Marietta (36)
and against June 12 - July 2 1864
Kenesaw Mountain (37), Ga
Combats about Nickajack Creek,
Ga (38) July 2 - 5, 1865
Operations on line of Nickajack Creek, Ga (28) July 2 - 5, 1864
Operations on the line of the
Chattahoochee July 5 - 17 1864
River, Ga (39)
Battle, Atlanta, Ga (40) July 22, 1864
Siege, Atlanta, Ga (41) July 23 - Aug 25 1864
Battle, Ezra's Chapel, Ga (42) July 28, 1864
Flank Movement on Jonesborough, Ga (43) Aug 25 - 30 1864
Battle, Jonesborough, Ga (43) Aug 31 - Sept 1 1864
Engagement, Love joy Station, Ga (44) Sept 2 - 5 1865
Operations against Hood in Northern
Georgia Sept 29 - Nov 3 1864
and Northern Alabama
Sherman's Campaign against Savannah,
Ga (45) Nov 15 - dec 10 1864
(March to the Sea)
Soon after the fall of Savannah, in mid-december, 1864, the veterans and recruits of the regiment was transferred to the Fifteenth Missouri Infantry. They served as members of that regiment until mustered out of Federal service on Dec 25, 1865. The 17th Missouri participated in more than fifty-five engagements during its career.
During its career the Seventeenth Missouri Infantry sustained the loss of six officers and sixty-two enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. An additional three officers and one hundred and forty-eight enlisted men died from disease or other nonbattlefield causes.