"Youth, pride in such a service, and the novel duties and scenes in which they were soon to act gave the "enchantment of distance" to a life filled with hardship, danger, and death."

Colonel William H. Noble

Introduction

Major Allen G. Brady

Sgt. Edwin O. Harrison

Lt. Hanford Hayes

Hubbell's in the 17th

Pvt. Timothy Donovan

Musician Henry Huss

Sgt. Isaac Crissy

Pvt. Francis H. Ferry

Pvt. George S. Ferry

Surgeon Robert Hubbard

Chaplain William K. Hall

Over one thousand men served with the Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the course of its three-year life. One hundred thirty-five years after the fact, most of them are lost to us. They have become names on a roster, faces on a faded photograph. Their lives, their hopes and dreams, what made each of them unique in their own way, have faded into obscurity.

Each year several dozen inquiries are received from descendants of these soldiers, looking to fill in some of those missing pieces. For most, there are only the barest facts. For some, there is much more.

Here can be found biographies of some of these men of the Seventeenth. In some cases there is a lot of information that can be added, for others less so. In all cases, there is enough to remind us all that each name had a life story to go along with it.

For any descendant of one of the thousand or so soldiers that wants to add something to this site, e-mail me at DogSgt@worldnet.att.net. Your contribution need not be long, need not be Pulitzer quality, and need not be polished---just factual.