- 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment
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unit_name=17th Indiana Infantry Regiment
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dates=June 12 ,1861 - August,1865
country= United States of America
allegiance=Union Army
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type= Infantry
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colonel_of_the_regiment=John T. Wilder
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battle_honours=17th Indiana Infantry Regiment was an
American Civil War regiment. It was organized atIndianapolis, Indiana ., and mustered inJune 12 ,1861 . Left State forParkersburg, West Virginia ,July 1 ,1861 . Attached to District of the Kanawha,West Virginia , to September, 1861. Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to November, 1861. 15th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division,Army of the Ohio , January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division (Center), 14th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. Wilder's Mounted Brigade,Army of the Cumberland , to November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to August, 1865. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm]Governor Oliver P. Morton appointed
John T. Wilder as the lieutenant colonel of the 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment three months later. On March 2, 1862, Wilder became the regiment's colonel.
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