Civil War Rosters
21st Infantry

 

This was Grant's regiment. It was from the Seventh Congressional District and was organized at Mattoon, Illinois, on the 9th of May, 1861. On the 15th of May it was mustered into the State service for 30 days, by Capt. U. S. Grant, and June 28th it was mustered into the U. S. service for three years, with U. S. Grant as colonel. Grant was commissioned Brig. Gen. Aug. 6, 1861, and was succeeded by Col. J. W. S. Alexander, who was killed Sept. 20, 1863, at Chickamauga. The regiment did good service, and was mustered out Dec. 16, 1865, at San Antonio, Texas. The few names below were from this county.

Three years service.

Company D
Hall, George W., recruit, transferred from 75 Illinois, mustered out Dec. 16, 1865.
Hubbard, Albert, recruit, transferred from 75 Illinois, mustered out Oct. 12, 1865.

Company F
Standard, Charles B., recruit, transferred from 75 Illinois, mustered out Oct. 12, 1865.

   

Sources:
Combined History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, 1882
*Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Schuyler County, 1908

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