The
21st Missouri Regiment
Infantry Veteran Volunteers.
Historical Memoranda.
COMPILED BY
N. D. Starr and T. W. Holman.
July, 1899.
ROBERTS & ROBERTS, PRINTERS,
FORT MADISON, IOWA.
EXPLANATORY PREFACE.
AT the close of the war and after their discharge themembers of the 21st Missouri Regiment scatteredover Missouri and other States of the Union. Noeffort was made to keep the organization alive until 1888,when T. W. Holman, responding to the whisperings ofmemory for a sight and hand clasp of the old comrades of’61-’66, on his own responsibility published a call, inAugust, 1888, for a meeting of the survivors at Arbela,Mo. The result was a large gathering of the veteransand the organization of the 21st Missouri Infantry VeteranVolunteers Association. From that date to the presenttime annual meetings have been held. At the meeting in1896, Messrs. T. W. Holman and N. D. Starr were madeRegimental Historians, to compile and perpetuate thehistory of the regiment. At the next meeting, in 1897,these comrades made a partial report, and at the Edina,Mo., meeting in 1898, submitted the result of their laborsin manuscript form. A motion was then made and carriedthat T. W. Holman continue the labor and revise andprepare the manuscript for publication and have it printedfor the use of the Association. In accordance with theforegoing instructions the succeeding pages are respectfullysubmitted.
T. W. Holman.
DAVID MOORE,
Colonel 21st Regiment Missouri Inf. Vet. Vols.
THE CALL TO ARMS.
Organization of the 1st and 2d North Missouri Regiments,June and July, 1861.—Campaigning in North MissouriDuring the Summer of 1861.—Order Consolidating the1st and 2d North Missouri Regiments, ThereafterKnown as the 21st Regiment, Missouri Infantry Vols.
AFTER the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 manypolitical disturbances and difficulties arose and hewas inaugurated during a time of overwhelmingexcitement. The government of Missouri at that timewas in the hands of those who were clamoring for secessionfrom the Union of States. Claiborne F. Jackson, whohad been trained in the political school of “States Rights,”was elected Governor. Early in the spring of 1861 CampJackson was established in St. Louis and troops for Stateservice were mustered at that point.
The Southern states, one after another, withdrew fromthe Union and on April the 11th, 1861, Fort Sumter wasfired on by the Confederates. This was the bugle call toarms, and President Lincoln’s proclamation for 75,000 mento serve for ninety days followed. F