17th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Organized at Nashville, Tenn., December 12 to 21, 1863. Attached to Post of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Post and District
of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. 1st Colored
Brigade, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865. Post
and District of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1866.
SERVICE.-Duty at McMinnville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., till November, 1864.
Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16. Overton Hill December 16. Pursuit of
Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-27. Decatur December 28-30. Duty at Post
of Nashville, Tenn., and in the Dept. of Tennessee till April, 1866. Mustered
out April 25, 1866.
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