Participated in the following engagements during his term of service:
5/10/64 Wilderness, Va, lost one wounded
5/11/64 Spotsylvania Court House, Va, lost one wounded
6/1/64 Cold Harbor, Va, lost one wounded
9/3/64 Bunker Hill, Va., lost one wounded and one POW
17th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
17th Infantry Regiment was organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in June, 1861 and soon movd to Virginia. The men were drawn from the counties of Pike, Chickasaw, Marshall, Quitman, Alcorn, Tishomingo, Panola, Grenada, and Benton. It fought under D.R. Jones at First Manassas and in April, 1862 contained 692 effectives. During the remainder of the war it served under Generals H. Cobb, Griffith, Barksdale, and Humphreys. After fighting at Leesburg, the 17th was active in the difficult campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, except when detached to Chickamauga and Knoxville. It was involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and later the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment took 600 men to Leesburg and lost 2 killed and 9 wounded. It reported 15 killed and 92 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, 9 killed and 77 wounded of the 270 at Sharpsburg, 13 wounded at Fredericksburg, and 10 killed and 70 wounded at Chancellorsville. Of the 469 engaged at Gettysburg, forty-three percent were disabled. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek , and only 3 officers and 62 men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels Winfield S. Featherston, John C. Fixer, and William D. Holder; Lieutenant Colonel John McGuirk; and Majors William L. Duff, John M. Lyles, and Edward W. Upshaw.
See also: http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/CSky-ms.html#MS-Inf
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mscivilw/17thms.htm
The U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa, lists the following in their unit bibliography:
Davis, Matthew J. "A Long Journey Home." CW Times Illustrated (May 1997): pp. 14-16, 50-52 & 54-55 (8 photocopied pages). Per.
Hawley, Steve C. "Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Fredericksburg." CW History (Mar 1994): pp. 5-24 (11 photocopied pages). Per.
Love, William A. "Mississippi at Gettysburg." Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, In Gettysburg Sources, Vol. 1. Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1986. pp. 122-49 (14 photocopied pages). E475.53G47.1986v1.
McIntosh, Hartman, ed. "'The Whole World Full of Smoke...': The Civil War Letters of Private John Alemeth Byers, 17th Mississippi Infantry." Military Images Magazine (May/Jun l988): pp. 6-11 (6 photocopied pages). Per
McNeily, J.S. Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Gettysburg: "Most Magnificent Charge of the War.",Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, 1987. 33 p. E475.53M32.
Moore, Robert A. A Life for the Confederacy, as Recorded in the Pocket Diary of...Co. G, 17th, Mississippi Regiment, Confederate Guards, Holly Springs, Mississippi. Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer, 1959. 182 p. E605M83.
Nelson William C. The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper
Nelson of Mississippi. [Edited by Jennifer W. Ford] Knoxville, TN: U TN, 2007. 336 p. E568.5.17thN45.
Reith, Bruce. "Josiah Archibald Lee: Private, Company I, The Pettus Rifles, 17th Mississippi Infantry,,C.S.A." Military Images Magazine (Jan-Feb 2000): pp. 18-19 (2 photocopied pages). Per.
The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:
Papers on Gettysburg - CWTIColl
Baker, Neil A. (Letter) - LeighColl Book 41 #17
Duke, J.W. (Memoir) - BrakeColl
Featherston, Winfield Scott - CWMiscColl
Fiser, John C. - CWTIColl
Henley (Memoir) - BrakeColl