17th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment

HISTORICAL NOTES: 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.

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

The regiment lost a total of 4 enlisted men during service, all due to disease. The Adjutant General's Report states that they lost no men by disease or combat casualties, but they had several desertions. OFFICERS:

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Adams Drake.

Adjutant--D. C. Strowbridge.

Assistant Surgeon--Geo. E. Budington.

Quartemaster--B. D. Evans.

ASSIGNMENTS:

attached to District of North Kansas.

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. ROSTERS:
The rosters of this unit contains the name of 531 men. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
REFERENCES:

REF: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion