United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
The 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 21 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 147 enlisted men by disease in the Civil War.
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1861
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| July 22 | The 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was organized at Lynnfield, Massachusetts. |
| August 23 | Left Massachusetts for Baltimore, Maryland. Attached to Dix’s Command, Baltimore, Md. |
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1862
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| March | Assigned to Foster’s 1st Brigade, Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps |
| March 12 | Ordered to New Berne, N. C. |
| April | Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
| May 15-16 | Reconnaissance toward Trenton |
| May 15 | Trenton Bridge |
| May 22 | Trenton and Pollocksville Road (Co. I) |
| July 24-28 | Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville |
| November 11 | Demonstration on New Berne |
| December 11-20 | Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro |
| December 14 | Kinston |
| December 16 | Whitehall |
| December 17 | Goldsboro |
| December | Assigned to Amory’s Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina. Provost duty at and near New Berne |
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1863
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| January | Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| April 7-10 | March to relief of Washington, North Carolina. |
| April 9 | Blount’s Creek |
| April 17-19 | Expedition to Washington, North Carolina. |
| April 27-May 1 | Expedition toward Kinston |
| April 28 | Wise’s Cross Roads and Dover Road |
| July 4-8 | Expedition to Thenton |
| July 6 | Quaker Bridge |
| July | Defenses of New Berne, North Carolina, Department of Virginia and North Carolina |
| July 25-August 1 | Raid on Weldon |
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1864
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| January 18- February 10 |
Operations about New Berne against Whiting |
| February 1-3 | Skirmishes at Beech Creek and Batchelor’s Creek |
| April 18-22 | Expedition to Washington, North Carolina. |
| April 27-28 | Washington, North Carolina. |
| May- July | Duty at New Berne and vicinity |
| July | Sub-District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| July 27 | At Newport Barracks |
| September 23 – November 10 | Veterans returned to Massachusetts on furlough |
| November 20 | Duty at Newport Barracks |
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1865
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| January | Sub-District of Beaufort, Department of North Carolina |
| March | 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Beaufort, Dept. of North Carolina |
| March 4 | Moved to Core Creek |
| March 8-10 |
Battle of Wise’s Forks |
| March 15 | Occupation of Kinston |
| March | 1st Brigade, Division District of Beaufort |
| March 21 | Occupation of Goldsboro; attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps |
| April 9-14 | Advance on Raleigh |
| April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
| May 5-July 11 | Duty at Greensboro |
| July 11 | The 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment mustered out at Greensboro, N. C. |