The regiment was formed about May 15, 1862 by consolidating four companies of the 14th (McCarver's) and six companies of the 17th (Lemoynes') Co F of the 14th became Co B of the 21st.

NAME                                RANK            OTHER INFORMATION

ADARE, HUMPHREY  -  PVT - Died  25 Oct 1862 in hospital
ARMSTRONG, J.L.  - PVT
ARMSTRONG, A.D.  - PVT
ARNOLD, JAMES H.  - PVT
ARUN, ASA   - CPL
BIGHAM, B.A.   - SGT - Captured at Champion Hill, MS 17 May 1863.
BILLBREY, STEPHEN D.  - PVT
BIRCHFIELD, JAMES  - PVT - Wounded at Shiloh 4 Oct 1863. Report prepared near Holly Springs, MS 15 Oct 1862. Captured at Big Black Bridge, MS 17 May 1863. Died of pneumonia at Point Lookout, MD 14 Dec 1863.
BIRCHFIELD, WILLIAM B.  - PVT
BIRMINGHAM, J.C.  - PVT
BLACKBURN, WILLIAM  - PVT  - Left West of the Miss River
BLANKENSHIP, J.R. -  PVT - Captured at Vicksburg, MS 4 Jul 1863
BLANN, GEORGE W.  - CPL
BRANDON, JOHN  - PVT - Enl at Pocahontas, AR 24 Oct 1861. Left West of the  Miss River.
BRATCHER, AMOS J.  - PVT - Captured at Vicksburg, MS 4 Jul 1863.
BRATCHER, ELI J. JR.  - PVT - Wounded at Hatchie Bridge,  3-5 Oct 1862
BRATCHER, ELI J. SR.  - PVT  Left West of the MS River
BROCK, WILLIS J.  - 1SGT - Gunsmith
CAMPBELL, JOHN  - PVT - Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862
CARPENTER, E.  - SGT - Companies A & B.
CARVER, P.T.   - PVT
CLARK, DAVID Pvt Enl 23Sep1861 at Pocahontas, AR. Died 20Aug1862
CLAYTON, DANIEL  - 1LT - Disch 4 Jun 1862.
COKE, B.F.  - PVT - Died 21 Aug 1862.
COKE, R.F.   - PVT - Transferred to Co F.
CUNNINGHAM, W.C.  - PVT - disch 7 Mar 1862
CRAFTON, W.C.  - SGT - Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862
DARHAM, LANIUS T.  - SGT - Captured at Port Gibson, MS 1 May 1863
DAVIS, JOSEPH   - PVT - Left West of the MS River
DAWSON, JOHN -  PVT - Deserted 4 Nov 1862
DENTON, ISAAC  - PVT Deserted 5 Nov 1862
DODSON, JAMES -  1LT Promoted and trfd to Co F 1 Jun 1862. Age 22. Born  in TN.
DOWELL, RICHARD  - PVT - Died 22 Jul 1862.
DUNKIN, ELI   - PVT -  Died at Yandell, MS hospital Nov or Dec 1862.
DUNKIN, JOHN W.  - PVT -  Deserted 5 Nov 1862
DUNKIN, W.A.   - CPL -  Deserted 5 Nov 1862
EDWARDS, WILEY M. -  PVT
ENSLEY, JAMES H.  -  PVT
FERGUSON, W.W.  - SGT
FLANIGAN, B.J.  - PVT
FLANIGAN, W.V.  - PVT - Reference only to 14th
GIBBINS, JOHN   - PVT
GIBSON, JORDAN   - MUSICIAN
GOING, A.J.   - PVT - Reference only to 14th
GOLDER, JAMES B.  -  PVT - Reference only to 14th
GRADDY, JOHN  - PVT  - Left West of the MS River
GRIFFITH, DANIEL  - PVT
HACKNEY, MARIAN H. - PVT
HAIR, ISAAC  -  PVT - Died Jul  20, 1862
HALCOMB, JOSEPH -  PVT - Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862
HALLIBURTON, J.W.   - PVT
HALLIBURTON, SAMUEL C. - PVT
HAMM, JOHN P.  - PVT - Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862, captured, Died at Camp Morton, IN 24 Jul 1864. Grave 920  Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
HAMM, JOSEPH B.  - PVT
HARDIN, MOSES J.  - SGT - Left West of the MS River
HODGE, HIRAM H.  - PVT
HUDSON, T.J.   - PVT - Died 24 Jun 1862
JOHNSON, JAMES  - PVT Died 6 Aug 1862
JOHNSON, JOHN  - PVT
JOHNSON, JOHN A.  - PVT
JOHNSON, JOSEPH  - PVT
JOHNSON, W.H.  - PVT
KINCKALOE, WILLIAM B. - PVT - Disch 30 Apr 1862
LANDON, POLK  - PVT  -  Reference only to 14TH
LONDON, POLK  -  PVT Reference only 14th
MARTIN, L.B.  - PVT Reference only to 14TH
MATHENY, W.G.  - CPT/LCOL - Elected LTC 14 May 1862. Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
MATLOCK, J.B.  - PVT - Reference Only to 14TH
McCORD, J.T.   - CPL
McKNIGHT, HARDIN -  PVT
McKNIGHT, JOHN  - PVT
MEEKER, L.E.   - PVT - Left West of the MS River.
MEEKS, NORMAN S.  - PVT - Reference only to 14TH
MEEKS, W.G.  JR - LT -  Reference only to 14TH
MIZE, JOHN R.  - PVT - Died 13 Jul 1862.  Carpenter
MORGAN, JOHN  -  PVT - Died 20 Jul 1862.
MOSER, FRANKLIN M. - 1LT - Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
MOSER, PETER  - PVT - Died in Mil Prison Hosp at Rock, Island, IL 14May1864.
NEELY, JOHN I.  - PVT
NEELY, W.C   - PVT - Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862
NEWTON, J.N.  -  PVT
NICHOLS, JOHN   - PVT
NICHOLS, WILLIAM  - PVT
NUNN, WILLIAM R.  -  SGT Died 11 Aug 1862
OSBURN, JOHN T.  - PVT
PADEN, GEORGE D.  - PVT
PERKY, WILLIAM M.  - PVT/MUSICIAN -   Left West of the MS River.
PETTY, WILLIAM C.  - PVT-  Discharged 28 Oct 1862
RICHARDSON, W.M.C. - PVT -  Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862
RING, JAMES C. - PVT
RING, SHEPHERD H. - PVT - Died ?Jul 1862
RITCHIE, ISAAC H. -  PVT
RITCHIE, SAMUEL W.  - PVT - Died 18 Jul 1862
ROWLETTE, B.F.  - PVT
ROWLETTE, T.J.  - PVT
ROYAL, O.B.   - PVT
ROYAL, W.A.   - PVT
SHARP, JOHN   - PVT - Detailed as Cpt's Cook. Detailed nurse for Cpt Wasson.
SHAVER, JAMES A.  - PVT
SHIRLEY, BENJAMIN P.  - PVT
SHIRLEY, JAMES A.  - PVT - Captured 17 May 1863 at Big Black, (Shows also captured 16 May 1863 at Champion Hill, MS) Was sent from Camp Morton, IN to Ft Delaware, DE 22 Jun 1863. Exchanged
25 Dec 1863 at Point Lookout, MD.
SHIRLEY, JOHN C. Cpl  Enl 24 Oct 1861 at Pocahontas, AR.-Jan-Feb 1863 Taken prisoner and paroled at Corinth, MS (Refers to the previous Oct.) Captured 17 May 1863 at Big Black, MS and sent to military prison at Camp Morton, IN then to Ft Delaware, DE 22 Jun 1863. Died 20 Aug 1863 at Ft Delaware, DE. of "congestion of  brain"
SIMPSON, SAMUEL G. - PVT -  Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
SLOAN, WILLIAM L.  - CPT  - Trfd to Co F. Wounded and died at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
SONGER, JOHN M.  - CPL
SOUTHWORTH, C.G.  - PVT -  Left West of the MS River.
SPURLOCK, DAVID  - PVT
STEPHENS, YOUNG J.  -  SGT - Captured at Champion Hill, MS 16 May 1863. Died 25 Sep 1863 at Ft Delaware, DE of Diarrhea. (Those who died at Ft Delaware were buried in  trenches across the river in New Jersey.)
THOMPSON, G.W.  - PVT - Died at Ft Delaware, DE 25 Jun 1863.
THOMPSON, WILLIAM R. - PVT - Paroled prisoner. Died at Petersburg, VA Hospital 15Aug1863 of diarrhea.
VANCE, G.B.  -  PVT - Died 9 May 1862.
VANCE, JOHN L.  - PVT - Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
VANCE, MARTIN V.  - PVT
VANCE, SAMUEL L.  - PVT
VANZANT, B.F.  - PVT
VANZANT, JAMES E.  - PVT
VANZANT, JOHN  - PVT
WALLING, JAMES D.  - PVT - Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
WASSON, CALVIN  - PVT -  Missing after the battle at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
WASSON, JOHN C.  - PVT - Killed at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862.
WASSON, JOHN M.  - CPT -  Enl 4 Oct 1861 at Pocahontas, AR. Promoted from Jr Lt, Co ''I'' to 1Lt Co ''B'' 13 May 1862. Signs roll as Comdg unit. Promoted to Cpt 18 Aug 1862. Wounded at Corinth, MS 4 Oct 1862. Captured and paroled at Vicksburg, MS 4 Jul 1863. Arrested in Lawrence Co, AR 7 Oct 1863 and sent via St Louis, MO to Camp Chase, OH then to Johnsons Island, OH. Trfd to New Orleans, LA Jan 9, 1865. Paroled at Jacksonport, AR 5 Jun 1865. Age 28, born TN, eyes gray, hair dark, complx dark, ht 5' 10''.
WATKINS, G.P. -  PVT-  Left West of the MS River.
WEEN, W.A.   - PVT
WILES, SAMUEL J.  - PVT
WILLIAMS, JOHN M.  - PVT Reference only to 14TH
WILLIAMS, JOHN M.  - PVT  Disch 28 Aug 1862.
WILLIAMS, R.D.  - SGT -  Disch 24 May 1862
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM P. - PVT
WILSON, R.J.  -  2LT - Reference only to 14TH
WILSON, THOMAS M.  - SGT
WRENN, W.A.   - PVT

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