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MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS
17th REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA
CAVALRY ( 162nd VOLUNTEERS )
Organized at Harrisburg September to November, 1862.
Left State for Washington, D.C., November 25, 1862.
Attached to Cavalry Brigade, 11th Corps, Army Potomac, to February, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1864, and Army Shenandoah to March, 1865.
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1865.
SERVICE
1862
Camp at East Capital Hill, Defences of Washington, till December
Skirmish at Occoquan, Dumfries, December 19.
Occoquan December 19-20 and 27-28.
Frying Pan Church, near Chantilly, December 29.
1863
Wiggenton's Mills, February 6
Kelly's Ford, April 28.
Chancellorsville Campaign
Rapidan River April 29.
Chancellorsville April 30-May 6.
Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9.
Gettysburg Campaign
Upperville, Va., June 21.
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
Williamsport, Md., July 6.
Boonsboro July 8.
Benevola or Beaver Creek, Md., July 9.
Funkstown, Md., July 10-13.
Falling Water, Md., July 24.
Kelly's Ford July 30-August 1.
Brandy Station August 1.
Expedition from Leesburg August 30-September 2.
Advance to the Rapidan
Brandy Station and Culpeper C. H. September 13.
Raccoon Ford September 14-16.
Reconnaissance across the Rapidan September 21-23
Jack's Shop, Madison C. H., September 22.
Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
Raccoon Ford and Morton's Ford October 10.
Stevensburg October 11. Near Kelly's Ford October 11.
Brandy Station or Fleetwood October 12.
Oak Hill October 15.
Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
Parker's Store, Va., November 29.
1864
Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7
Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond February 28-March 4.
Fortifications of Richmond March 1.
Ashland March 1.
Reconnaissance to Madison C. H., Va., April 28.
Wilderness May 5-7.
Brock Road and the Furnaces May 6.
Todd's Tavern May 7-8.
Sheridan's Raid to the James River May 9-24.
North Anna River May 9-10.
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern May 11.
Meadow Bridge May 12.
Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
Hanovertown May 26.
Hanovertown Ferry and Hanovertown May 27.
Crump's Creek May 28.
Haw's Shop May 28.
Totopotomoy May 28-31.
Old Church and Mattadequin Creek May 30.
Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, May 31-June 1.
Bottom's Bridge June 1.
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid June 7-24.
Trevillian Station June 11-12.
Newark or Mallory's Cross Roads June 12.
White House or St. Peter's Church June 21.
Black Creek or Tunstall Station June 21.
Baltimore Cross Road, June 22.
Jones' Bridge June 23.
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.
Near Newtown August 11.
Cedarville, Guard Hill or Front Royal, August 16.
Summit Point August 21.
Kearneysville and Shepherdstown August 25.
Leetown and Smithfield August 28.
Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan August 29.
Berryville September 6.
Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek, September 15.
Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
Middletown and Strasburg September 20.
Near Winchester and Smithfield September 24.
Fisher's Hill September 29 and October 1.
Newtonia October 11.
Winchester November 16.
Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties November 28-December 3.
Expedition to Gordonsville December 19-28.
Madison C. H. December 21.
Liberty Mills December 22.
Near Gordonsville December 23.
1865
Sheridan's Expedition from Winchester to Petersburg February 27-March 25
Occupation of Staunton March 2.
Waynesboro March 2.
Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
Dinwiddie C. H. March 30-31.
Five Forks April 1.
Scott's Cross Roads April 2.
Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek April 4.
Sailor's Creek April 6.
Appomattox Station April 8.
Appomattox Court House, April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army.
Expedition to Danville April 23-29.
March to Washington, D.C., May.
Grand Review May 23.
Consolidated with 1st and 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 2nd Provisional Cavalry June 17, 1865.
| Officers | Enlisted | |
| Killed and mortally wounded | 6 |
98 |
| Disease | --- |
128 |
Sources:
"History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865," by Samuel P. Bates. Bates books are to be found in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA.
History of the Seventeenth Regiment, Pa. Volunteer Cavalry or One Hundred and Sixty-Second in line of Pa. Volunteer Regiments, War to Supline the Rebellion, 1861-1865, by the Pennsylvania Cavalry, 17th Regt., 1862-1865, Lebanon, PA., Sowers Printing Company 1911.
The Roll of Honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Theodore Weber Bean (1833-1891), Philadelphia, PA, Published by J. S. Claxton 1865.
The Civil War CD-Rom ,Guild Press of Indianna, inc. www.guildpress.com
