17th Pennsylvania Cavalry

It was the second regiment formed in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call July 2, 1862 requesting Pennsylvania furnish three cavalry regiments.

[3] Organization of the regiment was formalized October 18, 1862 at Camp Simmons, near Harrisburg, with the naming of officers, including Josiah H. Kellogg, Erie County, Colonel, a regular Army officer; John B. McAllister, Perry County, Lt.

Colonel; David B. Hartranft, Montgomery County, Major;Coe Durland, Wayne County, Major; Reuben R. Reinhold, Lebanon County, Major.

[4] [5] 1862: Camp at East Capital Hill, Defences of Washington, till December, 1862.

Skirmish at Occoquan, Dumfries, Va., December 19.

Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond February 28-March 4.

Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern May 11.

Newark or Mallory's Cross Roads June 12.

White House or St. Peter's Church June 21.

Black Creek or Tunstall Station June 21.

Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom July 27-29.

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.

Toll Gate, near White Post, August 11.

Cedarville, Guard Hill or Front Royal, August 16.

Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek, September 15.

Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties November 28-December 3.

Scott's Cross Roads April 2.

Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek April 4.

[7] Henry G. Bonebrake, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, serving as Lieutenant in Company G, was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous bravery at the Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, where he captured the flag from a confederate color-bearer in a hand-to-hand struggle.