CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
17th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
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17th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Moore, Louisiana, in September, 1861. Its
members were recruited in the parishes of Ouachita, Sabine, Catahoula, Plaquemines, Orleans,
Caddo, Bossier, Morehouse, and Claiborne. The unit fought at Shiloh and in July, 1862, contained 27
officers and 373 men. Assigned to Baldwin's Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and East
Louisiana, it lost 2 killed, 10 wounded, and 1 missing at Chickasaw Bayou, then was captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.
Exchanged and reorganized, the regiment was placed in A. Thomas' Brigade, Trans-Mississippi
Department, and engaged the Federals within the boundries of Louisiana. Early in 1865 it
disbanded. The field officers were Colonels S.S. Heard and Robert Richardson; Lieutenant
Colonels Charles Jones and Madison Rogers; and Majors Robert B. Jones, William A. Maddox,
William A. Redditt, and David W. Self.
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