21st Missouri Infantry Regiment

History

Detailed 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 until 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., until 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 until February 9.
• Moved to Vicksburg, Miss.
• Moved to New Orleans, La., February 9–21.
• Campaign against Mobile and its Defenses 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 until June.
• Moved to Mobile June 1.
• Duty at Mobile and other points in Alabama until April, 1866.
• Mustered out April 19, 1866.

  Casualties

Commanders

• Colonel David Moore: Commander led the unit from muster of unit until Feb 11, 1865.

  Attribution

• Starr, N. D. and Holman, T. W., The 21st Missouri Regiment Infantry Veteran Volunteers, Fort Madison, Iowa, Roberts & Roberts Printers, 1899.
• Anders, Leslie, The Twenty-first Missouri: From Home Guard to Union Regiment, Greenwood Press, 1975