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 healthy region until September, guarding the property of cotton speculators. The winter was spent at St. Charles, White River and Memphis. Late in December, a long march with General Grierson’s cavalry was made through the interior of Tennessee. In January, 1865, at Dauphin Island, Alabama, the regiment was assigned to the Thirteenth Army Corps, in a brigade commanded by General J. R. Slack. On the 17th of March, from Fort Morgan, it joined in the march to Mobile, participating in the stirring events of that campaign, the siege and capture of Spanish Fort and Blakely. The Twenty-first remained on duty in the vicinity of Mobile until near the close of the war, when it was moved to Baton Rouge, where, on the 15th of July, 1865, it was mustered out of the service.

Seven companies of this regiment were raised in Johnson County and one in each of the counties of Monroe, Jasper, and Wapello. They went into camp near Iowa City in August, 1862, and were mustered into the United States service on the 9th of September. William M. Stone, who had been major of the Third Infantry, was appointed colonel; John A. Garrett, lieutenant-colonel; Harvey Graham, major; and J. B. Atherton, adjutant.

Soon after organization the regiment was sent by steamer to St. Louis, and from there to Rolla, where it remained about four months. In January, 1863, it was made a part of the First Brigade of the First Division of the Army of Southeast Missouri. Colonel Stone was placed in command of the First Brigade, which consisted of the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Iowa and the Eleventh Missouri regiments. The Twenty-second was employed in service in southeast Missouri until toward the last of March, when sent to Join Grant’s army then starting on the Vicksburg campaign. The First Brigade was assigned to the Fourteenth Division