Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Capt Silas F. Rigby
This Regiment's Chain of Command:
Corps - Middle Department (8th Army Corps)
Division - Harpers Ferry Garrison
Brigade - 4th Brigade, HF Garrison
Unit history
Mustered in as Company "A," 17th Indiana Infantry, June 12, 1861. Left State for Parkersburg July 2nd. Attached to Reynolds' Cheat Mountain District, West Virginia, to November, 1861, and in Milroy's Command to July 1862. At Winchester to September 1862 under BGen White, then Miles' Command at Harpers Ferry.