Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. SEVENTEENTH VERMONT INFANTRY. GRIFFIN'S BRIGADE - POTTER'S DIVISION —NINTH CORPS. COL. FRANCIS V. RAM)ALL. 147 killed — 12.9 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 376; Died of disease in Confederate prisons, 28. BATTLES. K. &M.W. Wilderness, Va 21 Spotsylvania, Va 23 Hanovertown, Va i Picket, Va., May 15, 1864 i Bethesda Church, Va 5 Cold Harbor, Va 10 BATTLES. Petersburg Assault, Va.... Petersburg Trenches, Va. Petersburg Mine, Va Fall of Petersburg, Va Poplar Spring Church, Va. Place Unknown K. & M. W. .... 15 , . . . 22 ... 16 ... 15 14 4 Present, also, at North Anna ; Weldon Railroad; Boydton Road ; Hatcher's Run ; Fort Stedman. NOTES. —Although the Seventeenth was in service only one year, yet it saw more fighting and sustained greater losses in action than three-fourths of the regiments in the whole Union Army. It left the State April 18, 1864, with seven companies, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Cummings; two weeks later it went into action at the Wilderness. Though without drill or necessary preparation the regiment moved steadily under fire, its colors waving on the line of the farthest advance. Owing to the prevalence of an epidemic in the ranks, it took only 313 muskets into that action, losing 8 killed, 63 wounded, and 3 missing. The next week, led by Major Reynolds, it fought at Spotsylvania. its casualties there amounting to 10 killed and 60 wounded. At the Mine Explosion it lost 8 killed, 22 wounded, and 23 missing-- Major Reynolds and 5 line officers losing their lives in this affair. The regiment also sustained heavy loses at Petersburg, both in the general assault of June i8th, and in the trenches, where, for months, men were killed or wounded every day. Lieutenant-Colonel Cummings, who was wounded at the Wilderness, resumed command at the battle of Poplar Grove Church, but only to lose his life in that battle. Three more companies joined the regiment during the summer and fall of 1864. On April 2, 1865, the Seventeenth took part in the storming of the works at Petersburg — its last battle — losing in that action 8 killed, 39 wounded, and 2 missing. It was mustered out July 14, 1865. _04438
