The Twenty-first Missouri
Subtitle: from Home Guard to Union regiment
By: Leslie Anders.
Series: Contributions in military history ;; no. 11
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 21st (1861-1865?); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
Description: Regimental history of the 21st Missouri which was formed in Northwestern Missouri when two home guard Missouri Volunteer units merged into a Union regiment. They began their long service by fighting guerilla soldiers. They would go on to fight at Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville, Mobile, and later return to Missouri to fight during Price's Raid of 1864.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 275-285.
Includes index.