The companies making up this regiment were raised chiefly in the counties of Lee, Van Buren, Des Moines, Wapello, Decatur, Polk, Jefferson, ...

The ten companies composing the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry were ordered into, quarters at Keokuk, Iowa, between the dates January 25 and Marc...

SECOND COLONEL, SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY. David B. Hillis is a native of Jefferson county, Indiana; and was born on the 25th day of July, 1825. ...

THIRD COLONEL, FIFTH INFANTRY. Jabez Banbury is a native of England, and was born in the year 1831; but, removing to this country when quite...