. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . wi % ■ f£ A DRESS PARADE OF THE SEVENTEENTH NEW YORK IN 1861 New Yorks Seventeenth Infantry Volunteers entered the war as the Westchester was organized at New York City and mustered in for two years, Colonel II. Seymour Lansingin command. The regiment left for Washington June 21, 1861, and was stationed near MinersHill, just across the District of Columbia line, a mile and a half from Falls Church. It fought onthe Peninsula, at the second Bull Run, at Ant
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . wi % ■ f£ A DRESS PARADE OF THE SEVENTEENTH NEW YORK IN 1861 New Yorks Seventeenth Infantry Volunteers entered the war as the Westchester was organized at New York City and mustered in for two years, Colonel II. Seymour Lansingin command. The regiment left for Washington June 21, 1861, and was stationed near MinersHill, just across the District of Columbia line, a mile and a half from Falls Church. It fought onthe Peninsula, at the second Bull Run, at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, andtook part in the famous mud march January 20 to 24, 1863. On May 18, 1863, the three-yearsmen were detached and assigned to a battalion of New York volunteers, and on June 23, 1863,were transferred to the 146th New York Infantry. The regiment was mustered out June 2,1863, having lost during service five officers and thirty-two enlisted men killed and mortallywounded, and three officers and thirty-seven enlisted men by THE SEVENTEENTH NEW YORK AT MINERS HILL, NEAR WASHINGTON [.-7] A r\ «-v *-. .
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