Georgia 17th Infantry (Confederate)
8/12/61
Organized - Georgia 17th Infantry - Georgia
5/31/62
Battle - Seven Pines - Henrico County, Virginia
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston withdrew his army from the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army pursued him. By the end of May, Johnston held a defensive position seven miles east of the city on the Richmond and York River Railroad. McClellan's army facing Johnston straddled the Chickahominy River and stretched south. Capturing the initiative from his Union foe, Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps isolated south of the river. The Confed…READ MORE
7/1/62
Battle - Malvern Hill - Henrico County, Virginia
On June 30th, the retreating Federal Army of the Potomac finally stopped at the James River at the end of seven days of fighting outside of Richmond.READ MORE
8/5/62
Battle - Malvern Hill, Virginia
8/28/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain Augustus C. Jones, Captain Hiram L. French, and Major John H. Pickett
8/28/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Toombs, and Colonel Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralRobert Toombs
ColonelHenry L. Benning
8/28/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major John H. Pickett
MajorJohn H. Pickett
8/28/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain Augustus C. Jones
CaptainAugustus C. Jones
8/28/62
Battle - Thoroughfare Gap - Fauquier County, Virginia; Prince William County, Virginia
After the early summer collapse of the Union Peninsula Campaign offensive to capture Richmond, Robert E. Lee sought to move his army north and threaten Washington DC before Union forces could regroup. His trusted and highly capable "wing" commanders, Maj. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson and Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, brought Lee's army within 35 miles of the Union capital by the end of August. Jackson waited for the arriving Union army near Manassas. Longstreet, trailing Jackson by a day, met the Union divisi…READ MORE
8/28/62
Battle - Second Bull Run - Prince William County, Virginia
After the early summer collapse of the Union Peninsula Campaign offensive to capture Richmond, Robert E. Lee sought to move his army north and threaten Washington DC before Union forces could regroup.READ MORE
9/17/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain John A. McGregor
CaptainJohn A. McGregor
9/17/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Toombs, and Colonel Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralRobert Toombs
ColonelHenry L. Benning
9/17/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Toombs
Brigadier GeneralRobert Toombs
12/13/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Wesley C. Hodges
ColonelWesley C. Hodges
12/13/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Henry L. Benning
ColonelHenry L. Benning
12/13/62
Leadership Change - Division - Major General John B. Hood
Major GeneralJohn B. Hood
12/13/62
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
4/11/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralHenry L. Benning
4/11/63
Battle - Siege of Suffolk - Suffolk, Virginia
4/30/63
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
6/17/63
Battle - Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Evander M. Law, and Major General John Bell Hood
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
Major GeneralJohn Bell Hood
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Division - Major General John Bell Hood
Major GeneralJohn Bell Hood
7/1/63
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
9/19/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Matthews
Lieutenant ColonelCharles W. Matthews
9/19/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Evander M. Law
Brigadier GeneralEvander M. Law
9/19/63
Battle - Chickamauga - Catoosa County, Georgia; Walker County, Georgia
After the successful Tullahoma Campaign, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans continued the Union offensive, aiming to force Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army out of Chattanooga. Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga and into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans' army at Davis' Cross Roads. While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Un…READ MORE
10/28/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Micah Jenkins
Brigadier GeneralMicah Jenkins
10/28/63
Battle - Wauhatchie - Hamilton County, Tennessee
Wary of troops marching to the aid of the Federal army besieged at Chattanooga, General Braxton Bragg ordered General James Longstreet to take action against the force massing in Lookout Valley. In a rare nighttime attack, a division of Longstreet's corps attacked the Union rearguard near the crossroads of Wauhatchie. The brief fight was a bloody repulse for the Confederates, who were forced to withdraw. The Confederates had missed their last best chance to prevent supplies from reaching the Union Army of…READ MORE
5/5/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Henry L. Benning, and Colonel Dudley M. Du Bose
Brigadier GeneralHenry L. Benning
ColonelDudley M. Du Bose
5/5/64
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Charles W. Field
Major GeneralCharles W. Field
5/5/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralHenry L. Benning
5/5/64
Battle - Wilderness - Spotsylvania County, Virginia; Orange County, Virginia
The first battle between Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee erupted late in the morning of May 5, 1864, as Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's Union V Corps attacked Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps on the Orange Turnpike southwest of the old Chancellorsville battlefield. Although Federal infantry managed to break through at several points, the Confederate line held. Fighting shifted to the south as Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps engaged Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps and ele…READ MORE
5/8/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Dudley M. Du Bose
ColonelDudley M. Du Bose
5/8/64
Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE
5/31/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Dudley M. DuBose
ColonelDudley M. DuBose
5/31/64
Battle - Cold Harbor - Hanover County; near Mechanicsville, Virginia
After two days of inconclusive fighting along Totopotomoy Creek northeast of Richmond, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee turned their sights on the crossroads of Cold Harbor. Roads emanating through this critical junction led to Richmond as well as supply and reinforcement sources for the Union army. On May 31, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry captured Cold Harbor. The next day, Sheridan held the crossroads against a Confederate attack. With reinforcements from both armies arriving…READ MORE
6/9/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralHenry L. Benning
6/9/64
Battle - First Petersburg - Petersburg, Virginia
8/14/64
Battle - Second Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
As he had done in late July during the Battle of the Crater, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant called upon Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his Second Corps to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces around Richmond to exploit suspected weaknesses in Lee's lines. In early August, Grant had detached the Sixth Corps from the Union lines around Richmond and Petersburg and sent them to the Shenandoah Valley under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sheridan's new army there was to counter Gen. Jubal Early, then operating in the v…READ MORE
9/20/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Dudley M. Du Bose
ColonelDudley M. Du Bose
9/20/64
Battle - Chaffin's Farm - Henrico County, Virginia
9/30/64
Battle - Fort Harrison, Virginia
10/7/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Henry L. Benning
Brigadier GeneralHenry L. Benning
10/7/64
Battle - Darbytown and New Market Roads - Henrico County, Virginia
4/2/65
Battle - Third Petersburg - Dinwiddie County, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia
With the Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1st, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George Meade ordered a general assault against the Petersburg lines by the Second, Ninth, Sixth and Twenty-Fourth Corps to take place April 2nd. In the pre-dawn darkness, the Union infantry gained a successful breakthrough where Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright's advancing Sixth Corps met the Confederate lines held by Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill near the Boydton Plank Road. Hill was killed trying to reach his troops in t…READ MORE
4/9/65
Battle - Appomattox Court House - Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Between 26,000 and 28,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered and were paroled.READ MORE
4/9/65
Mustered Out - Georgia 17th Infantry - Georgia
4/20/65
Battle - Macon, Georgia
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