In October 1886, The Clarion-Ledger published a letter written by Colonel W.D. Holder, former commander of the 17th Mississippi Infantry, to John S. McNeilly. who had served
as a private in the 21st Mississippi Infantry. Holder spoke in his letter about the battle of Gettysburg, in particular the part played by Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, to which both the 17th Mississippi and 21st Mississippi belonged. Holder wrote with admiration about his old brigade saying:
Barksdale’s brigade, in line of battle on the day in question, stood thus: Extreme left, 13th Mississippi Regiment, Colonel Carter; 17th, Colonel Holder; 18th, Colonel Griffin; 21st, Colonel Humphreys. Colonel Griffin was wounded in the leg, Colonel Carter killed on the field, and Gen. Barksdale fell in the midst of his gallant old 13th Regiment. He always gravitated to this beloved regiment in every battle. I regret that I cannot name the color-bearer, who signalized himself at the ‘Trostle House.’ No color bearer of that gallant brigade, however, could be other than a hero. The prerequisites were ‘every inch a soldier,’ and equal to any emergency. They dared to go where duty called, and knew by the crucial test of many an ensanguined field, that their regiments would stand by them to the bitter end. (The Clarion-Ledger, October 6, 1886)
July 2018 is the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and to mark the occasion I wanted to write about the 21st Mississippi’s participation in the battle, as it was their bloodiest fight of the entire war in terms of total casualties. The 21st Mississippi had 32 men killed and 106 wounded at Gettysburg, and I decided to really try to bring home the magnitude of this loss by listing every man in the regiment that was killed, wounded or captured. In addition to listing each casualty, I will tell stories I have found about some of these men to help bring them to life and make them more than just a name on a casualty list.
21st Mississippi Infantry
Gettysburg Casualties
Field & Staff
Adjutant Robert G. Sims – No age listed, wounded in the left thigh July 2, 1863
Company A, “Volunteer Southrons”
(Organized in Vicksburg, Warren County)
Private William H. Barnett – Age 21, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. Henry F. Briley – Age 23, captured July 2, 1863
Sgt. John Marshall Collier – Age 27, wounded July 2, 1863
Sergeant John Marshall Collier survived his Gettysburg wound and returned to the 21st Mississippi, serving until nearly the very end; he was captured at Harper’s Farm, Virginia, on April 6, 1865. When he died at Vicksburg in 1898, his old wartime comrade, Roswell Valentine Booth, said of him, “In all the relations of life he was a most exemplary man, but that characteristic which seemed to me to most dominate his nature, was his deep sense of duty; an honest and earnest desire to truly perform all the obligations which devolved upon him, wherever he might be, or by whatsoever circumstances surrounded.” (The Vicksburg Herald, April 16, 1898)
Corp. Singleton C. Cooke – Age 24, wounded July 2, 1863
While recuperating from his Gettysburg wound, Singleton C. Cooke received a lieutenant’s commission and transferred to the Confederate Engineer Corps. He survived the war and became a successful businessman, working for the Illinois Central Railroad and the Whitney National Bank. Cooke died in New Orleans in 1911, and in his obituary it noted that “Two of his brothers, William and John, were killed at Gettysburg, where he too, was wounded.” I was not able to find any information on William, but I did identify John, and he was killed during the war, only not at Gettysburg. Sergeant John A. Cooke of Company H, 48th Mississippi Infantry, was “Killed on picket lines Oct. 27, 1864.” (Vicksburg Evening Post, September 20, 1911, and the Compiled Service Record of John A. Cooke, 48th Mississippi Infantry, accessed on Fold3.com)
Pvt. Vincent Corre – Age 28, wounded in the knee July 2, 1863
Lt. Harry H. Hayes – Age 34, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. John R. Hume – No age listed, wounded July 2, 1863
Sgt. John Lee – Age 26, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. Virginius A. McElroy – Age 30, captured July 1863
Pvt. Willis B. Oates – Age 39, wounded July 2, 1863
Sgt. Francis Fogg Weller – Age 23, captured July 1863
Lt. Walter W. Wolcott – Age 33, killed July 2, 1863
Some of the men fighting in the 21st Mississippi at Gettysburg were Northern born, and literally had to break with their families when they decided to fight for the South. A good example was Lieutenant Walter W. Wolcott, who was born in Starkey, New York. I found the following passage about him in a history of Yates County, New York: “Walter Wolcott, Jr., the third son of Dr. Wolcott, was born in Starkey in 1827. He was educated at the common schools and at Starkey Seminary, and was afterwards a book-keeper in Rochester, N.Y., and St. Louis, Mo., and a merchant at Rodney and at Vicksburg, Miss. At the outbreak of war he enlisted in the rebel army, and held the rank of Lieutenant in the ‘Vicksburg Volunteer Southrons.’ In Longstreet’s terrible charge at Gettysburg he was slain. All accounts describe him as a brave man, leading his men with undaunted courage on that bloody field. He was remarkable as a mathematical student, and as an accomplished violin player.” I found this passage in the book The Military History of Yates County, New York, page 124.
Company C, “Stevens Rifles”
(Organized in Brookhaven, Lawrence County)
Pvt. John J. Carson – Age 24, captured July 4, 1863
Pvt. Elias B. Golmon – Age 19, wounded in the head July 2, 1863
It was very common during the Civil War for kinfolk to fight side by side in the same regiment, and it certainly happened in the 21st Mississippi Infantry at Gettysburg. A good example is Private Elias B. Golmon and his brother, Corporal Henry Ithamer Golmon, who were both wounded in the fierce fighting at the Peach Orchard. The two brothers were lucky, they survived their wounds; they had two other brothers that were not as fortunate. John Harrison Golmon died of “Congestive Fever” in 1861 while serving in the 18th Mississippi Infantry, and Josiah Golman, a member of the 12th Mississippi Infantry, was killed in 1862 at the battle of Seven Pines. (Findagrave listings for Elias, Henry, John and Josiah Golmon, and their Compiled Service Records, accessed on Fold3.com)
Corp. Henry Ithamer Golmon – Age 20, wounded in the head July 2, 1863
Pvt. John W. Hollinsed – Age 37, wounded in the right foot, July 2, 1863
Sgt. Daniel Madden – Age 28, mortally wounded in the right side July 2, died July 5, 1863
The 21st Mississippi Infantry was heavily engaged at the Trostle Farm at Gettysburg, capturing much of the 9th Massachusetts Battery there, but suffering heavy casualties in the process. One of those struck down was Sergeant Daniel Madden, who was mortally wounded and died on July 5. Sergeant Madden was buried in a common grave at the Trostle Farm, put in the same hole with another casualty, Sergeant Benjamin Knabke of the 18th Mississippi Infantry. On August 3, 1872, both Madden and Knabke were disinterred, and their bodies shipped to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond for burial in Southern soil. (Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, by John W. Busey and Travis W. Busey, page 2050)
Pvt. William E. Northern – Age 34, captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. Anderson B. Sandifer – Age 20, wounded July 2, 1863
Capt. George W. Wall – Age 21, wounded in the arm July 1863
Company D, “Jeff Davis Guards”
(Organized in Woodville, Wilkinson County)
Pvt. John Abernathy – Age 25, killed July 2, 1863
Corp. Charles A. Anderson – Age 22, wounded and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. John Andrew – Age 40, wounded and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. H. Harrison Baker – Age 22, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. William H. Boyd – Age 23, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. William Ratliffe Brandon – Age 29, wounded in the thigh and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. J. Ford Brannan – Age 22, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863; erysipelas set in and he died at Richmond, September 30, 1863
Pvt. Fred Brewster – No age listed, wounded in the knee and captured July 2, 1863, died on his wounds July 24, 1863
Pvt. Sumberlin C. Brown – Age 40, killed July 2, 1863
Corp. Amos B. Cawbitt, – Age 23, wounded July 2, 1863, died of his wounds July 3, 1863
Pvt. Henry P. Cobb – Age 22, died, date of death unknown, was in hands of enemy July 2, 1863
Corp. Henry E. Evans – Age 22, wounded in the leg and captured July 2, 1863
Lt. John Farmer – Age 19, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863
Pvt. Lemuel Glass – Age 21, killed July 2, 1863
Some families lost multiple family members at Gettysburg; brothers Lemuel and William O. Glass of Wilkinson County were both killed on July 2. (Family of William and Rebecca Glass, listed on the 1850 U.S. Census for Point Coupee, Louisiana, page 38b. Accessed on Ancestry.com)
Pvt. William O. Glass – Age 26, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Harmon M. Joseph – Age 20, wounded in both thighs July 2, 1863
Pvt. Samuel D. Lanehart – Age 27, died, date of death unknown, was in hands of enemy, July 2, 1863
Pvt. James D. McDaniel – Age 33, wounded in the thigh and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. Calvin S. Neal – Age 21, captured July 2, 1863
Sgt. Wilbur F. Phares – Age 23, wounded in the hand July 2, 1863
Pvt. William S. Phares – Age 23, wounded July 2, 1863
Adjutant Robert G. Sims – Age 24, wounded in the left thigh July 2, 1863
Pvt. Lewis T. Timon – No age listed, wounded and captured July 2, 1863; left arm amputated.
Pvt. S.N. Timon – No age listed, wounded July 2, 1863; left arm amputated.
Musician Benjamin White – Age 24, wounded in the shoulder and captured July 2, 1863
Company E, “Hurricane Rifles”
(Organized at Woodville, Wilkinson County)
Pvt. Edwin G. Baker – Age 32, wounded in the lungs and captured July 2, 1863; died of wounds July 14, 1863
Pvt. Ovid L. Bell – Age 20 – captured while on a foraging detail, July 1, 1863
Pvt. John Dagler – Age 42 – wounded in the right thigh July 2, 1863
Pvt. Robert M. Davis – No age listed, wounded in the left hand July 2, 1863
Pvt. Jacob W. Enlow – Age 27, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. Henry Ghelt – Age 22, wounded in the left thigh and shoulder, July 2, 1863
Pvt. Frank Ghen – Age 35, captured July 2, 1863, afterward took the oath of allegiance to the United States
Pvt. William Kercheville Gildart – Age 19, wounded in the foot July 2, 1863
Some of the men who were wounded at Gettysburg recovered from their wounds and led long and productive lives. William K. Gildart lived long enough to see another destructive conflict: the 1st World War. In 1917 the old veteran wrote a letter to former Mississippi Governor Edmond F. Noel, in which he criticized Mississippi Senator James K. Vardaman, who was an outspoken opponent of American entry into the war:
“For four years I followed Lee in Virginia. You, Captain Noel, eagerly responded to your country’s call in ’98 and served under the younger Lee. In your regiment I had a son. Recently I have given to the army my youngest son, the stuff of my declining years. But I do it gladly….I take it that you will agree with the solemn conclusion to which I came some months ago, namely, that next to doing her share towards winning the war, Mississippi’s chief duty now confronting her is to defeat the junior senator for re-election. It must not be permitted to go out to the world at large that treason can flourish in Mississippi.” (The Daily Commonwealth, Greenwood, Mississippi, August 25, 1917)
Pvt. James Gordon – Age 24, captured at Gettysburg, July 1863, afterwards took the oath of allegiance to the United States
Pvt. John W. Hunter – Age 27, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. James Kinney – Age 42, wounded in action, July 2, 1863; bruised by shell and started for Virginia, got drunk and was captured
Pvt. James A. Lennox – Age 37, wounded at Gettysburg July 1863
Sgt. William F. Miller – Age 25, captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. Louis Plitt – Age 29, wounded in the hand and thighs July 2, 1863, furloughed to Mississippi and never returned to the regiment
Corp. William F. Roberts – Age 25, wounded in the leg July 2, 1863
Pvt. Jerry D. Rutlege – Age 27, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863
Pvt. George F. Smith – Age 32, wounded in the left leg July 2, 1863
Captain Isaac Davis Stamps – Age 32, wounded in the bowels July 2, 1863, died July 3, 1863
One of the men killed in the 21st Mississippi was Isaac Davis Stamps, nephew of President Jefferson Davis and son-in-law of Colonel Benjamin Humphreys, commander of the regiment. His wife was Mary Humphreys Stamps, and she had made Isaac a promise that if he were killed, she would have his body brought back to Mississippi for burial in their family graveyard. Using her political connections in Richmond, she was able to have the body of her husband sent to the Confederate capitol under a flag of truce. From there, she loaded her husband’s body on a train and began the long journey to Mississippi. Near Montgomery, Alabama, the railroad track had been destroyed by Union Cavalry, so Mary hired a wagon and driver and drove her husband’s body back to Wilkinson County to fulfill her promise. Isaac Davis Stamps is buried in the Davis Family Cemetery at Rosemont Plantation in Wilkinson County. (https://womenofeverycomplexionandcomplexity.weebly.com/mary-humphreys-stamps-undefeated-rebel-with-an-educational-cause.html)
Sgt. John M. Stricker – Age 21, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. James M. Watson – Age 25, captured July 2, 1863
Company F, “Tallahatchie Rifles”
(Organized at Charleston, Tallahatchie County)
Pvt. Henry S. Boisclair – Age 25, captured in Pennsylvania and escaped July 1863
Some of the men wounded at Gettysburg did receive some compensation after the war. Private Henry Shippey Boisclair was awarded a pension by the state of Mississippi in 1906, and some years later was admitted to the state veteran’s home at Beauvoir. Boisclair died at Beauvoir on March 3, 1909, and is buried in the cemetery there. (Series 1201, Confederate Pension Applications, accessed on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website. Also the Findagrave.com listing for Henry S. Boisclair)
Corp. William J. Burgess – Age 26, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Stephen T. Dunlap – Age 25, wounded in the right hip and captured July 3, 1863
Pvt. Franklin Freil – Age 34, captured July 4, 1863
Pvt. C.C. Haynes – No age listed, captured July 1, 1863
Pvt. James Hogan – No age listed, captured at Cashtown, July 4, 1863
Pvt. Patrick Henry Houston – Age 25, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. Robert D. Houston – Age 25, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. George W. Magee – Age 25, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. P. Bailey McDaniel – Age 22, wounded at Gettysburg July 1863
Pvt. John T. Neely – No age listed, wounded and captured July 2, 1863; left leg amputated
Pvt. Lewis G. Polk – Age 20, wounded in the jaw and captured, July 3, 1863
Pvt. Robert Riddick – Age 22, wounded in the head and leg and captured July 2, 1863
Capt. Henry Harper Simmons – No age listed, wounded in action and captured July 2, 1863; left leg amputated
Despite having to have a leg amputated due to the wound he received at Gettysburg, Captain Henry Harper Simmons lived a long life, dying in Texas at the age of 85 in 1923. In his obituary it was said of him:
Capt. Simmons was one of the first to respond to the call of the South; going out with Barksdale’s Brigade, Twenty-First Mississippi Infantry, Company F, Tallahatchie Rifles. He served with Lee and Longstreet in Virginia and Maryland and was in all the battles this glorious brigade participated in from Virginia to Gettysburg. At Gettysburg in the second day’s charge on Peach Orchard Hill, leading his men as captain of Company F under Colonel Humphries, he fell, as it was thought mortally wounded. He was captured by the Federal troops, was imprisoned at Ft. McHenry and Point Lookout, where he remained prisoner for eight months, and being a cripple for life, having lost his left leg in battle. (Obituary of Henry H. Simmons, posted on his listing with Findagrave.com)
Corp. James Lawrence Simmons – Age 23, detailed as nurse at Gettysburg and captured July 4, 1863
Corporal James Lawrence Simmons was the brother of Captain Henry Harper Simmons, and he was captured on July 4, 1863, when he volunteered to stay behind and help tend to the wounded that were too badly injured to be moved. James Simmons was a doctor by profession, so it makes sense that he would stay behind, but I can’t help thinking that the fact that his own brother was wounded might have played into his decision as well. Sent to Point Lookout Prisoner of War camp, Simmons was released on exchange in February 1865. (Compiled Service Record of James L. Simmons, accessed on Fold3.com)
Pvt. H. H. Sommons – Age 27, wounded in action at Gettysburg July 1863; right leg amputated
Pvt. John M. Thompson – Age 20, wounded and captured July 2, 1863; left leg amputated
Pvt. James I. Toole – Age 22, wounded in the side and leg and captured, July 2, 1863
Pvt. Charles C. Williams – Age 20, wounded and captured at Gettysburg July 1863
Pvt. Joseph Joshua Williams – Age 20, wounded in the groin and captured at Gettysburg July 1863
Pvt. James M. Worley – Age 24, wounded by a shell which fractured his leg, July 2, 1863; died of his wounds, date not listed
Company G, “Madison Guards”
(Organized at Canton, Madison County)
Pvt. James R. Cochran – Age 25, wounded in the right leg and captured July 2, 1863
Corp. William Collum – No age listed, wounded July 2, 1863; leg amputated; died of wounds July 6, 1863
Pvt. Thomas Alexander DeHart – No age listed, wounded in the shoulder July 2, 1863
Pvt. William Henry DeHart – No age listed, wounded in the chest and arm and captured July 2, 1863
Lt. Cicero W. Denman – No age listed, wounded in the fact July 2, 1863
Pvt. Benjamin F. Mitchell – No age listed, wounded in the right foot and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. George T. Mitchell – Age 22, wounded in the leg July 2, 1863
Pvt. Albert G. Stewart – Age 15, wounded in the side July 2, 1863
Pvt. Hezekiah Stewart – Age 23, wounded in the left breast and arm, July 2, 1863
Company H, “Warren Volunteers”
(Organized at Bovina, Warren County)
Pvt. Dickson Henry Alverson – Age 20, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863
Pvt. Tyre M. Davidson – Age 18, wounded in the army July 2, 1863
Pvt. George W. Davis – Age 23, wounded in the left shoulder July 2, 1863; missing in action and supposedly died in a Northern prison
Pvt. Hardy D. Dear – Age 18, wounded in the right foot by a shell, July 2, 1863
Pvt. David Downs – Age 29, wounded in the hip and bowels and captured, July 2, 1863; died of his wounds September 19, 1863
Pvt. Robert W. Fox – Age 19, wounded July 2, 1863; left thumb amputated
Private Robert W. Fox survived his Gettysburg wound, and despite having to have his thumb amputated, he returned to the 21st Mississippi. Fox was wounded again at the Battle of Spotsylvania on May 8, 1864, and later that same year received his third wound of the war on September 26, 1864. Fox was the son of James Angel Fox, an Episcopal minister who was outspoken about his Unionist sentiments. In December 1863, Union occupation authorities in Vicksburg brought in Reverend Fox to make the traditional blessing of the United States, and its president, Abraham Lincoln. When Fox gave this prayer at Christ Church, several local ladies walked out in protest, leading to them being banished from the city. (Vicksburg and the War by Gordon Cotton and Jeff Giambrone, page 116)
Pvt. James O’Neil – No age listed, wounded and captured at Gettysburg July 1863
Corp. Pleasant C. Romain – Age 20, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Sgt. Robert F. Spears – Age 25, wounded in the leg July 2, 1863
Pvt. Samuel B. Stephens – No age listed, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Waller W. Wilson – No age listed, wounded in the elbow July 2, 1863
Company I, “Sunflower Guards”
(Organized in Sunflower County)
Pvt. Jesse Barcus – Age 24, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863
Lt. Lewis Turner Basket – Age 32, wounded in the hand July 2, 1863
For Lieutenant Lewis Turner Basket, the injury he sustained at Gettysburg was the second of three wounds he received during the war. Wounded at the Battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, he was also hurt in fighting around Petersburg on June 18, 1864. Basket survived the war, and died in Memphis in 1903. In his obituary it was said of him:
His conceptions of duty and right were clear and plain, and to fulfill their demands upon him was his law of life – no interposition of peril and privation swerved Capt. Basket from their pathway. He was the personification of a true, unselfish and unassuming manhood. (Compiled Service Record of Lewis T. Basket, accessed on Fold3.com, and obituary, The Vicksburg Herald, January 7, 1903)
Pvt. George W. Carras – Age 39, captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. George Fisher – Age 37, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863; captured at Greenwood, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1863
Pvt. Theodore W. Gee – Age 27, wounded and captured July 2, 1863; died of his wounds August 2, 1863
Sgt. Gadi G. Gibson – Age 21, wounded in the neck July 2, 1863
Capt. Tully Stewart Gibson – Age 30, wounded in the thigh July 2, 1863
Some of the men who fought at Gettysburg were able to put the war behind them when the conflict ended in 1865; Doctor Tully S. Gibson was not one of them. On May 7, 1865, he wrote his former commander Benjamin G. Humphreys a letter and shared his thoughts on the end of the war:
Yours of the 5th inst. was recd. this morning, confirming what I had already heard of the sadly humiliating condition of the country. I find but little comfort in the conviction that we were right and that I did my best- my opinion is that it is better to have fought & lost than never to have fought at all. Barnes, Dave and Ben with their contemporaries will renew the struggle, and I trust succeed if we do not in our day. ..I am anxious to get into a country where Yankees cannot ride about in peace, comfort & Safety…(Tully S. Gibson to B.G. Humphreys, May 7, 1865, Benjamin Grubb Humphreys Papers, MDAH)
Gibson was true to his word, and he did give the Yankees plenty of trouble. He was involved in the reconstruction riots that took place in Sunflower County, and on January 1, 1870, the Deputy Sheriff of Sunflower County, J.J. Gainey, along with a group of soldiers from the 16th United States Infantry attempted to arrest Gibson at his home. The good doctor refused to submit, and in the ensuing gun battle Tully S. Gibson was killed. (Statement of J.J. Gainey, The Weekly Clarion, August 25, 1870) In his obituary, one of his friends eulogized Gibson by saying:
He was with the regiment at Yorktown, at Seven Pines, at Chickahominy, at Malvern Hill, at Harper’s Ferry, at Sharpsburg, at First and Second Fredericksburg, and at Gettysburg, where he was disabled for life. He never missed a march or a duty that his company was called upon to perform, and though he might at any time have been appointed surgeon, and have been detailed for hospital duties, he preferred to share the hardships and dangers of those he had gone to Virginia with from his beloved and native Mississippi. (The Weekly Clarion, January 20, 1870)
Pvt. Frederick Henick – Age 19, wounded in the mouth July 2, 1863
Pvt. John L. Irwin – Age 24, captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. William Frank Jones – Age 26, killed July 2, 1863
Capt. George C. Kempton – Age 21, wounded in the thigh and captured July 2, 1863
Sgt. James McLaughlin, Age 32, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Philip McNellis, Age 29, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Corp. John S. Payne, Age 24, wounded in the wrist July 2, 1863; captured at Cashtown, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1863
Sgt. Stephen H.T. Shaw, Age 22, captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. Eugene A. Smith, Age 20, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. William B. Smith, Age 22, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Marshall F. Spells – Age 27, wounded in the hand July 2, 1863
Sgt. Godfrey C. Stancill, Age 21, wounded in the left leg July 2, 1863
Corp. John Summers, Age 39, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. Bazil L. Tate, Age 30, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. Jefferson J. Weatherly, Age 24, captured July 3, 1863
Company K, “New Albany Grays”
(Organized at New Albany, Pontotoc County)
Pvt. Wiley D. Baker – Age 31, missing in action July 2, 1863; supposed to have been killed
Pvt. James M. Bottoms – Age 21, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. David C. Crawford – Age 19, wounded July 2, 1863; missing in action and supposed killed
Corp. James W. Cullins – Age 23, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. George W. Freeman – Age 27, gunshot wound left hand July 1863
Pvt. N.G. Garris – No age listed, wounded and captured July 3, 1863
Pvt. William J. Jarvis – Age 28, wounded in the leg and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. James Joines – Age 20, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. David T. Meader – Age 31, wounded in the left lung and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. William H. Murrah – Age 20, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. John H. Nowlin – Age 32, wounded in the right foot and captured July 2, 1863
Capt. John W. Renfroe – Age 32, wounded in the arm July 2, 1863
Pvt. Elijah L.J. Roberts – Age 27, wounded in the groin July 2, 1863
Lt. Theodore B. Sloan – Age 31, wounded in the right lung July 2, 1863; captured in the hospital July 3, 1863
Pvt. William J. Sloane – Age 21, detailed as a nurse for the wounded at Gettysburg; captured July 4, 1863
Pvt. George L. Wilhite – Age 36, wounded in the foot and captured July 2, 1863
Company L, “Vicksburg Confederates”
(Organized at Vicksburg, Warren County)
Pvt. John Bresenon – No age listed, wounded in the left leg July 1863
Pvt. Fredrick R. Brewerton – No age listed, wounded in the leg and captured July 2, 1863; died of his wounds, date unknown
Pvt. Robert E. Butler – No age listed, wounded in the hip and captured July 2, 1863
Pvt. John Carr – No age listed, killed July 2, 1863
Sgt. Frank Clark – No age listed, wounded July 2, 1863
Pvt. Jerry Cronan – No age listed, killed July 2, 1863
Pvt. Henry Drybud – No age listed, wounded in the right hand and captured July 2, 1863; two fingers on hand amputated
Pvt. Patrick Hall – No age listed, wounded in the leg July 2, 1863
Sgt. William Henderson – No age listed, killed July 2, 1863; “struck by the same shell that hit Lt. Simmons and Jas. Worley”
Corp. Jacob Hertzel – No age listed, captured Cashtown, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863
Pvt. Michael Roach – No age listed, wounded in the thigh and captured July 2, 1863
Company Affiliation Unknown
These men served in the 21st Mississippi, but their service records do not state to which companies they belonged
Pvt. F. Fewell, No age listed, captured Gettysburg July 4, 1863
Pvt. William Kuver, No age listed, captured Pennsylvania July 1863
This list of casualties covers just one of the dozen or so battles that the 21st Mississippi participated in. For each and every one of those battles, there would have been a list like this one, with stories like these. I can only imagine what it must have been like for the families back home, waiting for the latest casualty list to be published in the local newspaper, knowing that in an instant that one piece of news could change their lives forever. It must have been hell.
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