The 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 17th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on April 16, 1862.
The 17th Iowa mustered 958 men at the time it left Iowa for active campaigning.
[1] It suffered 5 officers and 66 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 121 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 194 fatalities.
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