21st Regiment Illinois Volunteers

organized at Mattoon, IL, May 9, 1861



The following is a listing of only the men believed to be from Marion

County, IL.



OFFICERS:

McMackin, Warren E.

  	lieutenant-colonel	taken prisoner at battle of Chickamauga then

					exchanged and served until discharged.

	(Warren E. (b. 1818, KY), a dry goods merchant appears in the 1870 

	Marion Co. Census in Salem Township with his wife Delila (b. 1830, IL)

	and children: Emma, John, May, William, Charles, and Edwin.)

Mills, Alonzo L.

	commissary sergeant

Wham, Joseph

	1st lieutenant-Co. G	later paymaster in regular army

Brown, Fritz W.

	2nd lieutenant-Co. G

Trinor, George A.

	sergeant

Myers, John

	corporal

Burrough, Charles S.

	rank unknown

Lonnon, Samuel

	rank unknown		died Baltimore, Maryland, 3/20/1865

Barmes, John

	musician		



PRIVATES:

Davenport, Henry H.							

	discharged with disability, 5/30/1861

Gardner, Lucius C.							

	missing after Battle of Chickamauga

Gilman, Garrett J.

Hamilton, George								

	discharged with disability, 5/30/1863

Harley, Daniel W.

Myers, John W.

Newson, John F. 								

	died 9/20/1863

Richardson, James R.

Richardson, T.A.M.							

	discharged with disability, 9/16/1861

Shugart, John

Shugart, Robert

Shultz, Samuel W.

Watson, John F.								

	missing after Battle of Chickamauga

Wham, Francis L.								

	died in Andersonville prison, 7/24/1864, grave #3910

Wham, Joseph W.









Compiled by Paula Earls from "Brinkerholf's History of Marion County, IL"

and the 1860, 1870, and 1880 Marion County, IL Federal Censuses.  This list

is provided for your use, to hopefully point you in the right direction,

but are by no means to be considered 100% accurate.  Please double check 

all information gained from this list!