CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
17th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
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17th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee, in June,
1861, with 914 men. Its companies were raised in the counties of Bedford, Marshall, Franklin,
Moore, Coffee, Jackson, and Putnam. It served at Cumberland Gap, then moved to Kentucky
where it was engaged at Rock Castle and Fishing Creek. Later the unit was ordered
to
Mississippi and assigned to A.T. Hawthorn's Brigade. Returning to Kentucky attached to B.R.
Johnson's Brigade, it fought at Perryville, then joined the Army of
Tennessee. After fighting at
Murfreesboro
and Chickamauga, the regiment
was consolidated with the 23rd Infantry. This
command was sent to Knoxville, then Virginia where it saw action at Drewry's Bluff, took its
place in the Petersburg
trenches, and, assigned to McComb's Brigade, ended the war at
Appomattox. The 17th totalled
547 effectives in June, 1862, lost forty-one percent of the 598 at
Murfreesboro, and had fifty-two percent disabled of the 249 at Chickamauga. It surrendered 5
officers and 63 men on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Albert S. Marks, T.C.H.
Miller, and Tazewell W. Newman; Lieutenant Colonel Watt W. Floyd; and Majors James C.
Davis and Absalom L. Landis.
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