17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

There are two monuments to the Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers are at Gettysburg. One is north of town on Howard Avenue at Barlow's Knoll (above right) and the other southeast of town on Wainwright Avenue at the foot of East Cemetery Hill (lower right).
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The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Fowler until he was killed on July 1st. Major Allen Brady then took command.

The 17th brought 386 men to Gettysburg, of whom 20 were killed, 81 wounded and 96 missing.

From the front of the monument on Barlow's Knoll:

Erected by the survivors
of the
17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
2nd Brigade 1st Division, 11th Corps
In memory of their gallant comrades
who fell here on the 1st day
and on this battlefield on the 2nd and 3rd days of July,
1863

From the rear:

Lieut. Col. Douglas Fowler, Sergt. Samuel Comstock, Priv. Elephalet Mead, William S. Gregory, Corpl. Henry Burns, Priv. Michael Fox, William W. Westlake, Calvin Nobles

Capt. James E. Moore, Sergt. William O'Douchy, August E. Bronson, Bethel S. Barnum, Priv. Frank J. Benson, Theodore Blackman, Smith Delevan, Daniel H. Purdy

From the right side:

Priv. Richard B. Taylor, Rufus Warren, Joseph S. Whitlock, Corpl. Alvah E. Wilcox, Priv. William F. Bradley, John R. Booth, Stephen C. Crofut, Wilbur B. Morgan, John W. Metcalf

From the left side:

Sergt. Edwin D.Pickett, Priv. John A. Black, Lawrence Carney, Crassius M. Crabbe, Corpl. James Gordon, Piv. Francis C. Foote, James FLynn, George H. Gurnsey, Francis Nash, John Welsh

The Howard Avenue monument is signed, "W.H. Curtis, Stratford, Conn."

From the front of the Wainwright Avenue monument:

17th Conn. Vol's

From the right (north (side):

This memorial is erected
by the
State of Connecticut
to
honor her brave sons.

From the rear:

After a fierce contest with
Early's Division at Barlow's Knoll
on July 1st, marked by monument
there, this regment formed in
the line of battle on East
Cemetery Hill and on the
evening of July 2nd, took
position here and was engaged
in repulsing the desperate night
assault of Hayes and Hokes
Brigades.

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