MISSOURI
REGIMENT HISTORY
21st REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Organized February 1, 1862, from 1st and 2nd Northeast Regiments Missouri Infantry.Attached to Dept. of Missouri to March, 1862.
1st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.
1st Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862.
1st Brigade, 6th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to
December, 1862.District of Columbus, Ky., 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to May, 1863
4th Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 5th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January,
1864.lst Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland,
to February, 1965.1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division West Mississippi, to
August, 1865.Dept. of Alabama to April, 1866.
SERVICE.Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March, 1862.
Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, April 6-7.
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.
Occupation of Corinth and pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12.
Duty at Corinth till September.
Battle of Iuka September 19.
Battle of Corinth October 3-4.
Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12.
Grant’s Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863.
On post and garrison duty at Columbus, Ky.; Union City, Tenn.; Clinton, Ky., and
Memphis, Tenn., till January, 1864.
Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss., January 26.
Actions with guerrillas at Islands Nos. 70 and 71, Mississippi River, while en route,
January 29, on steamer “William Wallace,” Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2.
Queen Hill February 4.
Red River Campaign March 10-May 22.
Fort DeRussy March 14.
Occupation of Alexandria, La., March 16.
Battle of Pleasant Hill April 9.
About Cloutiersville April 22-24.
At Alexandria April 26-May 13.
Retreat to Morganza May 13-20.
Mansura May 16.
Yellow Bayou May 18.
Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 22-June 10.
Action at Old River Lake or Lake Chicot June 5-6.
Smith’s Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21.
Camargo’s Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13.
Tupelo July 14-15.
Old Town Creek July 15.
Smith’s Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.
Tallahatchie River August 7-9.
Abbeville August 23.
Moved to Duvall’s Bluff, Ark., September 1-6.
March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price September 17-November 16.
Lone Jack November 1.
Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1.
Battle of Nashville December 15-16.
Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
Moved to Clifton, Tenn., thence to Eastport, Miss., January 2-7, 1865, and duty there till
February 9.
Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., thence to New Orleans, La., February 9-21.
Campaign against Mobile and its Defences March 17-April 12.
Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.
Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.
Occupation of Mobile April 12.
March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there till June.
Moved to Mobile June 1.
Duty at Mobile and other points in Alabama till April, 1866.
Mustered out April 19, 1866.Regiment lost during service 2 officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally
wounded and 5 Officers and 234 Enlisted men by disease. Total 309.COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION by Frederick H. Dyer
Press of Morningside Bookshop Dayton, Ohio 1908 - 1978 Pages 1330 - 1331
Crystal Lake Library 12/28/00
The following is extracted from the listing of:
Company G Privates
Company was mustered into service at Canton, Lewis County, State of Missouri, the First day of February 1862 for the period of three years or during the war.
NAME
RANK
AGE
DESCRIPTION-HAIR- EYES-COMPLEXION
S/M
OCCUPATION
NATIVITY
ALVIS, Edward H.
Private
24
5’ 8” light blue light
S
Farmer
Lee Co., IA
ALVIS, Hiram
Private
22
5’ 8” light blue light
S
Farmer
Lee Co., IA
RESIDENCE
ENLISTED DATE
MUSTERED IN WHEN
WHERE
BY WHOM
REMARKS
Lee Co., IA
12 July 1861
1 Feb 1862
Canton, MO
Lt EA Moore
Promoted Serg't 19 Apr 66 Mustered out 19 April 1866
Lee Co., IA
12 July 1861
1 Feb 1862
Canton, MO
Lt EA Moore
Promoted Corporal 21 Oct 65 Mustered out 19 Apr 1866
