The Regiment lost 6 officers and 98 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 128 enlisted men to disease, a total of 232. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
September - November 1862 |
Organized at Harrisburg |
November 25 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. and Camp at East Capital Hill, Defenses of Washington attached to Cavalry Brigade, 11th Corps, Army Potomac |
December 19 |
Skirmish at Occoquan, Dumfries, Va. |
December 19-20 and 27-28 |
Occoquan |
December 29 |
Frying Pan, near Chantilly |
February 6, 1863 |
Wiggenton's Mills. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac, |
April 28 |
Kelly's Ford |
April 26-May 8 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29 |
Rapidan River |
April 30-May 6 |
Chancellorsville |
June 9. |
Brandy Station and Beverly Ford |
June 21 |
Upperville |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Josiah H. Kellogg. It brought 448 men to the field, losing four wounded.
Although the 17th was part of the Cavalry Corps , Companies D & H were detached to 5th Corps HQ. Company K was detached to 11th Corps HQ.
From the monument: "The Regiment held this position on the morning of July 1, 1863, from 5 O'clock until the arrival of First Corps troops. The Brigade then moved to the right, covering the roads to Carlisle and Harrisburg and holding the enemy in check until relieved by troops of the Eleventh Corps. It then took position on the right flank of the infantry, and, later, aided in covering the retreat of the 11th Corps to Cemetery Hill, where it went into position with the Division on the left of the army." |
July 6 |
Williamsport, Md. |
July 8 |
Boonsboro |
July 9 |
Benevola or Beaver Creek |
July 10-13 |
Funkstown |
July 14 |
Falling Water |
July 30-August 1 |
Kelly's Ford |
August 1 |
Brandy Station |
August 30-September 2 |
Expedition from Leesburg |
September 13-17 |
Advance to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Brandy Station and Culpeper C. H. |
September 14-16 |
Raccoon Ford |
September 21-23 |
Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
September 22 |
Jack's Shop, Madison C. H. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 10 |
Raccoon Ford and Morton's Ford |
October 11 |
Stevensburg and near Kelly's Ford |
October 12 |
Brandy Station or Fleetwood |
October 15 |
Oak Hill |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 29 |
Parker's Store |
February 6-7, 1864 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 28-March 4 |
Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond |
March 1 |
Fortifications of Richmond and Ashland |
April 28 |
Reconnaissance to Madison C. H. |
May-June |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Wilderness |
May 6 |
Brock Road and the Furnaces |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to the James River |
May 9-10 |
North Anna River |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Meadow Bridge |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 26 |
Hanovertown |
May 27 |
Hanovertown Ferry and Hanovertown |
May 28 |
Crump's Creek |
May 28 |
Haw's Shop |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 30 |
Old Church and Mattadequin Creek |
May 31-June 1 |
Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor |
June 1 |
Bottom's Bridge |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 12 |
Newark or Mallory's Cross Roads |
June 21 |
White House or St. Peter's Church and Black Creek or Tunstall Station |
June 22 |
Baltimore Cross Road |
June 23 |
Jones' Bridge |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 7 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, attached to the Army of the Shenandoah |
August 11 |
Toll Gate, near White Post and near Newtown |
August 16 |
Cedarville, Guard Hill or Front Royal |
August 21 |
Summit Point |
August 25 |
Kearneysville and Shepherdstown |
August 28 |
Leetown and Smithfield |
August 29 |
Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan |
September 6 |
Berryville |
September 15 |
Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester, |
September 20 |
Middletown and Strasburg |
September 24 |
Near Winchester and Smithfield |
September 29 and October 1 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 11 |
Newtonia |
November 16 |
Winchester |
November 28-December 3 |
Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties |
December 19-28 |
Expedition to Gordonsville |
December 21 |
Madison C. H. |
December 22 |
Liberty Mills |
December 23 |
Near Gordonsville |
February 27-March 25, 1865 |
Sheridan's Expedition from Winchester |
March 2 |
Occupation of Staunton; Waynesboro |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac
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March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie C. H. |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Scott's Cross Roads |
April 4 |
Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-29 |
Expedition to Danville |
May |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 17, 1865 |
Consolidated with 1st and 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 2nd Provisional Cavalry |
