21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 21st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= June 28, 1861 to December 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=

The 21st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 21st Illinois Infantry was organized at Mattoon, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on June 28, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on December 16, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 1 officer and 51 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 127 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 181 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.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. - retrieved June 25, 2007.]

Commanders

*Colonel Ulysses S. Grant - promoted brigadier general on August 7, 1861.
*Colonel John W.S. Alexander - killed in action September 20, 1863. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/021-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 25, 2007. ]

ee also

*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]