21st Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate)

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Brief History
Assembled at Richmond, Virginia, during June and July, 1861, recruited its members in Campbell, Floyd, Fulton, Polk, Gordon, Troup, Dale, Stewart, and Chattooga counties.

Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 2,535 men on its roster for this unit. Roster.


 * Officers, Non-Commissioned Offices, and Staff - see - Roster on page 838
 * Company A - ("Campbell Guards" or "Campbell Home Guards") Campbell County - see - Roster on page 840
 * Company B - ('Floyd Sharpshooters") Floyd County - see - Roster on page 850
 * Company C - ("Atlanta Volunteers") Fulton County - see - Roster on page 858
 * Company D - ('Cedartown Guards") Polk County - see - Roster on page 867
 * Company E - ("Concord Ranger") Forsyth and Dawson Counties - see - Roster on page 876
 * Company E - ("Sardis Volunteers") Floyd County - see - Roster on page 885
 * Company F - ("Ben Hill Volunteers") Troup County - see - Roster on page 892
 * Company G - (" Dabnet Rifles") Gordon County - see - Roster on page 902
 * Company H - ("Silver Grays" or "Yancey Invincibles") Dade County - see - Roster on page 911
 * Company I - ("Steward Infantry") Stewart County - see - Roster on page 918
 * Company K - ("Bartow Avengers") Chattooga County - see - Roster on page 927

Georgia, and Lillian Henderson. 1959. Roster of the Confederate soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865. Hapeville, Ga: Longina &amp; Porter. WorldCat   HATHI TRUST Digital Library

Other Sources

 * Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in ‘Georgia in the Civil War’ and ‘United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865’ (see below).


 * National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.


 * Georgia in the Civil War describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for Georgia, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Stewart County). Confederate rosters (reconstructed in 1899). (Atlanta [Georgia] : Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1960),


 * Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr. The Civil War comes to Dade County. ([S.l.] : N. C. Hughes, c1975),


 * Nisbet, James Cooper. Four years on the firing line. (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990),


 * Thomas, Henry W. (Henry Walter). History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. : containing muster rolls of each company of the Fourth, Twelfth, Twenty- First and Forty-Fourth Georgia regiments, with a short sketch of the services of each member, and a complete history of each regiment, by one of its own members, and other matters of interest. (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990), and (Dayton, Ohio : Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1981),