21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 21st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
caption=Michigan state flag
dates= September 9, 1862 to June 8, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville
The 21st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 21st Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Ionia and Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 9, 1862. Among the ranks were future prominent Michigan politicians John Avery and Charles E. Belknap.
The regiment was mustered out of service on June 8, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 3 officers and 80 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 291 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 377 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf3.htm#21st The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel
ee also
*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]
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