Seventeenth U.S. Infantry

The Seventeenth U.S. Infantry, seven companies under Lieut.-Colonel J. Durell Green, served with the Army of the Potomac’s Fifth Corps, Second Division, Second Brigade. On July 2 it arrived in the morning and took position with the brigade on the right of the Twelfth Corps. Later it moved to the left, and at 5 p.m. formed line with the brigade at the right of Little Round Top and advanced across Plum Run to the crest of the rocky wooded hill beyond near the Wheatfield under severe fire from Confederate sharpshooters on the left. Then, facing left, the regiment with the brigade occupied the stone wall on the edge of the woods. After Confederates opened fire on the right and advanced in the Wheatfield in the rear, the brigade was withdrawn under heavy fire on both flanks and from the rear and formed in line on the right of Little Round Top, having been engaged about two hours. On July 3 it remained in the same position. Present were 25 officers and 235 men. Casualties were 1 officer and 24 men killed, 13 officers and 105 men wounded, and 7 men missing.

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