"I do not regret having done as I have done, for I with many thousands was honest and enlisted for our country. If I was home and knew as much as I do now I would enlist at the first opportunity."

Corporal Andrew D. Couch - January 1863
Killed May 2, 1863 at Chancellorsville, Virginia

Pvt. Albert M. Allen - Co. A

Pvt. Timothy Donovan - Co. A

Died July 25, 1864 at St. Augustine, Fla.

A post-war image. Captured at Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863.

photo courtesy of Mike Fisher

photo courtesy of Brian Donovan

Pvt. Normas Kellogg - Co. A

Pvt. James M. Bailey - Co. C

A late enlistee (January 1864, he mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

A post-war image. Captured at Gettysburg, Pa. on July 1st, 1863. In 1870 Bailey purchased the "Danbury Times", and founded the "Danbury News". He also wrote a history of Danbury, CT, which included extensive information on Danbury's contributions to the Civil War effort. He was mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

photo courtesy of USAMHI

photo courtesy of Robert Young

Pvt. George H. Gregory - Co. D

Pvt. Benjamin Brotherton - Co. E

Wounded on Dec. 16, 1862 at Stafford Court House, Va. He was also captured at Gettysburg, Pa. on July 1, 1863. He mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

 Wounded at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863.

Collection of Dale Call

Collection of Dale Call

Pvt. Michael Ryan - Co. E

Pvt. James Hoyt - Co. F

A post-war image. Sick in a field hospital as the 17th marched towards Gettysburg, Pvt. Ryan was aware that "the balloon was up". He left against the advise of the surgeons to rejoin his company for the battle. He was struck by a shell fragment during the fighting on East Cemetery Hill on July 2, 1863. He was mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

Transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps in September 1864. He deserted in June 1865.

Photo courtesy of James Joyce

from USAMHI

Pvt. Jarvis Kellogg - Co. F

Pvt. James Lyon - Co. F

Transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps in December 1863. He was active in the GAR after the war in Norwalk, CT's Buckingham Post.

Active as well in Norwalk, CT's Buckingham Post of the GAR.

Collection of Dale Call

Collection of Dale Call

Pvt. Thomas Driscoll - Co. H

Pvt. Isaac Hyatt - Co. A

Discharged for disability in January 1863.

Mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

Photo from USAMHI

Photo courtesy of Jeff Grzelak

Pvt. Rufus Rice - Co. C

Pvt.Samuel Downs - Co. C

Discharged for disability in January 1863.

Mustered out with the regiment in July 1865.

Photo contributed by Jo Rice

Photo contributed by Ginny Gage

Musician Henry Huss - Co. D

Pvt. Stephen Lewis - Co. D

A post-war image. Captured at Chancellorsville - May 2, 1863. He was active in Westchester County, NY politics after the war, and sevred in various NYS military organizations. He reached the rank of Lt. Col. in the 27th Regt., NY National Guard. Henry Huss was the artist of the drawings featured on this site.

Image taken in 1864 at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Lewis was captured in February 1865 during the fight at Braddock's Farm, in which Lt. Col. Wilcoxson was mortally wounded and Adjutant H. Whitney Chatfield was killed. Lewis was briefly imprisoned at Andersonville until he was paroled in late April.

Photo contributed by Sue McCabe

From the collection of Dale Call

Pvt. Anthony Comstock - Co. H

Pvt. William A. Clark - Co. C

A post-war image. Comstock enlisted in December 1863 following the death of his brother, Sgt. Samuel Comstock, who was mortally wounded at Gettysburg. Mustered out with the regiment, Comstock later authored strict NY state statutes against "immoral" works. He was appointed a Special Agent of the US Postal Office, and was responsible for passage of the Comstock Law, still on the books today, outlawing mailing of "lewd, filthy, obsene and vulgar" materials. Comstock was, and is, a highly controversial figure of his time. The noun "Comstockery" is still a part of everyday speech - defined as "censorious opposition to alleged immorality". He died in 1915.

Image taken in Washington, DC. Clark enlisted in August 1862 and was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in May 1864.

Photo contributed by Dale Call

Photo contributed by Holly Omansiek