| 21st Regt. USCT |
| Organized from 3rd and 4th Regiments, South Carolina Colored Infantry, March 14, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Vogdes' Division, District of Florida, Dept. of the South, to April, 1864. Morris Island, S. C., Northern District, Dept. of the South, to October, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South, to February, 1865. Garrison of Charleston, S. C., Dept. of the South, to August, 1865. Dept. of the South, to October, 1866. SERVICE.-Duty at Jacksonville, Fla., till April, 1864. Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., thence to Folly Island, S. C., April 18. Duty on Folly Island, Morris Island and Coles Island operating against Charleston, S. C., till February, 1865. Expedition to James Island, S. C., June 30-July 10. Action on James Island July 2. Occupation of Charleston February 18. Garrison duty at Charleston and Mt. Pleasant, S. C., till August, 1865, and at various points in South Carolina and Georgia till October, 1866. Mustered out October 7, 1866. This regiment was created from understaffed regiments of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th South Carolina Regiments SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS 3rd REGIMENT INFANTRY Organized at Hilton Head, S. C., June, 1863. Attached to District of Hilton Head, S. C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South, to January, 1864. Barton's Brigade, District Hilton Head, S. C., to February, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Vodges' Division, District of Florida, to March, 1864. SERVICE.-Post duty at Hilton, Head, S. C., till February, 1864. Moved to Jacksonville, Fla., February 6-8, and duty there till March. Designation of Regiment changed to 21st U. S. Colored Troops March 14, 1864. SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS. 4th REGIMENT INFANTRY Organized at Fernandina, Fla., July, 1863. Attached to Post of Fernandina, Fla., Dept. South, to January, 1864. Barton's Brigade, District of Hilton Head, S. C., to February, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Vodges' Division, District of Florida, to March, 1864. SERVICE.-Duty at Fernandina, Fla., till January, 1864. At Hilton Head, S. C., till February, 1864. Moved to Jacksonville, Fla., February 6-8, and duty there till March. Regiment consolidated with 3rd South Carolina Infantry to form 21st U. S. Colored Troops March 14, 1864. SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS 5th REGIMENT INFANTRY Organization of Regiment not completed. Transferred to 3rd and 4th South Carolina Infantry. Officers: Colonel - Milton S. Littlefield Lieutenant Colonel - Augustus G. Bennett Major - Richard H. Willoughby Captain Edgar Abeel Mahlon E. Davis Joseph W. Dickinson Edmond R. Fowler Nicholas Mitz John L. Poppe Brantley G. Read Henry Sharp Charles Silva Henry V. Stonehouse First Lieutenant Charles S. Allen Adolphe Bessie Wm. G. Cornwell Charles A Dow William H. Fish Sabin T. Goodell Richard Gowers Alexander Hay George Hopper John E. Jacobs Adrianus Jansen Henry M. Jones Robert McLavy Daniel George McMartin Charles F. Richards Thomas J. Robinson George W. Wood Second Lieutenant Albert B. Ashley Addison Blanchard Charles F. Chase Oscar L. Cook George Durfee Hiram O. Edgerly Francis A.O. Grabner Joseph B. Holmes Prince Jenkins Peter Meagher James R. Rathbun P.H. Warren Surgeon - John M. Hawks Assistant Surgeon James F. Burdett Nathan S. Roberts Chaplain - Erasmus K. Jones Adjutant - Edwin Slack Members from St. Augustine and St. Johns County Florida Methodology - Soldiers included in this roll are one in which I could identify the soldier saying that they were from St. Augustine or a pension record identified them as from St. Augustine. Unfortunately for most of these men before the war they were slaves and because of this their movements are difficult to track. If you were to include men who lived in St. Augustine at one time or another before the war you have a significant increase. In this regiment Liberty Billings made a trip to St. Augustine from Beaufort where he recruited about 100 soldiers for the 33rd only 29 are listed in the 33rd from his recruitment trip. The three regiments of the 33rd, 34th and the 21st USCT are regiments where St. Augustine can be found, but the whole story is still not know. 21 Regt., Company A Sgt. Alexander Clark - Age 26, 6'0", sailor, enrolled 13 June 1863 at Fernandina. Brown complexion hazel eyes black hair Corporal Pablo Gray - 30, 5'10 1/2", lumberman, 13 June 1863 Fernandina brown complexion hazel eyes brown hair (Corporal buried on the grounds of the Mission of Nombre de Dios (Marriage certificate) (Burial Permit) Corporal Frank Pappy - Age 22 5' 3 3/4" brown complex, gray eyes brown hair St Augustine Waiter June 13 1863 Fernandina Fl (Corporal) Enlisted by Colonel Littlefield. Buried in Tolomato Corporal Pablo Rogers - Age 27, 5' 4 1/2 ", dark black black St Aug Waiter June 13 Fernandina Corporal Henry Hennyham - Age 28 5' 9 1/4", dark complexion brown eyes black hair Pablo Creek Florida Boatman June 13, 1863 Fernandina Fl corporal transferred to Non com staff as Sergt Major on May 1 1865. Hector Adams - Age 50, 5'6" , black, grey, grey, teamster, (born in Savannah Georgia) Discharged September 12, 1864 from Morris Island, SC on surgeon certificate of disability. Dept of the South November census - were listed as formally owned by Cristobal Bravo (merchant) Rose Adams, age 45 and daughter Florida, 7 and son Edward 8. enlisted by Colonel Littlefield. Hector died August 19, 1876 buried in Tolomato Thomas Williams - Age 22, 5' 7 1/2", black black black St Aug , Mason, June 13 1863 Fernandina. Original description On 3d SC list -- 21, 5'6 1/2 black blak black St Aug Servant, June 24 1863 Hilton Head Lt Stonhouse 3 years transferred from Co # Mar 18, 1864 (Deposition in the case of Hester Lancaster - Pension of Abram Lancaster) Antonino Pappy - Age 18, 5'6", brown, hazel, black, St Aug Servant April 5, 1864 St Aug Fl Lt Govers Ben Hatcher - Age 44, 5'5" dark, brown, black, St. Augustine enlisted in Fernandina by Littlefield owned first by Isaac Hatcher, and second by Landers Hill Plato King - Age 45 5'6" dark complexion hazel eyes, black hair St Aug Florida Waiter June 13 1863 Fernandina Discharged at Morris Island SC May 29 1864 on Surgeons Certificate of Disability Edward F. Langley - Age 28, 5' 9" Brown complexion Hazel eyes brown hair St. Johns Florida carpenter June 13 1863 Fernandina Col Littlefield 3 years William Natiel - Age 20 5' 10" dark, hazel, black St Aug waiter June 13 63 Fernandina Col Littlefield 3 yr Richard Natiel - Age 25, 5' 9 3/4 " dark complexion, black eyes Black hair, St. Augustine Florida chopper June 13 1863 Fernandina Discharged on Surgeons Certificate of Disability at Morris Island SC May 29 1864.buried on the grounds of the Mission of Nombre de Dios William Pappy - Age 18 , 5' 5 1/2 " brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, St Aug Fl Waiter June 13 1863 Fernandina FL. Married to Rosalie Goff on March 6, 1871 by Rev. W. M. Sampson. (Certificate of Pension for Rosalie) (Marriage License) (Burial Permit) Lewis Forester - Age 37, 5'7 3/4", from St. Johns County, carpenter, enrolled 13 June 1863 at Fernandina. Dark complexion black eyes, black hair. (Bounty) Simon Williams - Age 40, 5'9" dark black black St Aug Boatman June 13 1863 Fernandina, discharged at Morris Island SC May 29, 1864 on Surgeons Certificate of Disability. buried on the grounds of the Mission of Nombre de Dios 21 Regt., Company D Corporal Thomas Jackson - was appointed corporal on July 1st 1863, transferred from Co E on consolidation, Age 21, 5' 6 1/2 " black black black St Aug Florida Laborer June 24 Hilton Head 21 Regt., Company F Corporal Richard Simmons Age 38, 5' 6 1/4" black, black, black St Augustine Florida, Farmer Aug 3rd Jacksonville Lt Hopper discharged Aug 17 '65 21 Regt., Company G Hiram Campbell - Age 28, 5'6" black black Black St Aug FL Laborer Aug 30 Hilton Head , credited to the State of Vermont, never reported from recent depot 21 Regt., Company H Dick Cooper - Age 18, 5'6" black black black St Johns farmer, Aug 16th 1864 Lt Hopper 21 Regt., Company I Sergeant Joseph Williams - Age 50 5'10" blk blk blk St Aug Fa wagoneer 12 Jan 63 Beaufort Thibadeau 3 yrs General Milton S. Littlefield - (July 19, 1830 - March 7, 1899) from Ellisburgh, New York. Some time in the mid-1850's, Milton moved to Jerseyville, Illinois where he opened up a law firm. He was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln in his political campaigns. In 1861, Milton organized Company F, Fourteenth Illinois Infantry Volunteers and was elected Captain of this same company. The regiment was organized for 30 days and was mustered into the service at Jacksonville, Illinois on May 4, 1861. On May 25, 1861, it was mustered into the service of the United States. The regiment remained at Camp Duncan at Jacksonville where the troops were trained. On June 1861, the regiment was transferred to Rolla, Missouri, where it joined forces under General John C. Fremont. They spent the winter at Otterville, Missouri. In February 1862, the regiment was ordered to join forces with General Grant at Donelson, Tennessee. From there to Fort Henry, Tennessee where it embarked and was transported by steamboat up the Tennessee River to Pittsburgh Landing. They were assigned to a position in Peach Orchard where they came under attack from Confederate forces. The enemy was finally repulsed. The regiment took part in the siege of Corinth during the month of May 1862. Captain Milton S. Littlefield was appointed Assistant Provost Marshal for the city of Memphis per General Order No. 72, Hqs. Fifth Division, Memphis, August 14, 1862. Captain Littlefield was mustered out of the 14th on November 27, 1862. He reenlisted and was sent Morris Island off the coast of South Carolina as a Colonel, Commanding the Fourth South Carolina,Volunteers. This would later become the 21st USCT. He commanded the 21st from March to November 1864. On July 24, 1863, Colonel Littlefield was also placed in command of the 54th Massachusetts. He was under Col Montgomery's 4th Brigade. Before February 1864 he was commanding a training camp outside of Jacksonville. On February 15, 1865 Milton S. Littlefield was confirmed a U. S. General. After the war he became involved several Reconstruction Era scandals but was never convicted. He died in New York. Lieut. Colonel August G. Bennett In August, 1861, Colonel Bennett enlisted in the United States Army as a private in the Eighty-first New York Infantry. He was mustered as First Lieutenant, and was promoted to the Captaincy of Company B, within three months thereafter. He served in the Peninsular campaign under Gen. George B. McClellan. His regiment lay at Yorktown until January, 1863, and was then ordered South, and joined the Eighteenth Army Corps, Gen. J. G. Foster commanding. In April, 1863, Captain Bennett tendered his services to recruit a regiment of colored troops, which was accepted, and he raised the Twenty-first Regiment U. S. (Colored) Troops, and was made its Lieutenant-Colonel, but had active command of it through the three full years of its service. Colonel Bennett being in command at Morris Island when General Sherman was pressing General Hardy, after the latter had left Charleston, Colonel Bennett arranged his forces for aggressive warfare, and demanded the surrender of that city, which was granted to him on the eighteenth of February, 1865. He declared martial law, and at once assumed command of the city. The Colonel was honorably discharged from the service April 25, 1866. Colonel Bennett was born in Oneida County, New York, in 1836. Being left an orphan in early childhood, he has been self-dependent since nine years of age. He attended school and grew to man’s estate in New York. After the close of the war he married Miss Mary E. Jones, daughter of the chaplain of his regiment, in March, 1867. They spent a little more than a year in South Carolina, then settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, remaining there until they came to California. Mrs. Bennett has been a promoter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on the Pacific Coast, and has been three times chosen President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of San Jose, which has a membership of over 300. Colonel Bennett has served in the San Jose City Council, and is now a member of the Board of Education. He has also held the office of Senior Vice- Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of California, and has been Commander of Phil Sheridan Post, No. 7, and of John A. Dix Post, No. 42, Department of California G. A. R. Regimental Orders This was a typical day in the regiment from Regimental Orders No 1 May 1 1863 The following will be the regular daily detail until further orders Reveille and Roll call at 6 o'clock Breakfast call 7 o'clock Company Drill 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 Guard Mounting 9 Company Drill 10 to 11 Dinner Call 12 Sergeant's Drill 1:30 to 2:30 Company Drill 3 to 4:30 Dress Parade 5 Retreat Sunset Tattoo and Roll Call 9 0'clock Taps 9:30 Sgt Edwin Slack by order of A G Bennett Lt Col Comdg 3rd SC Vols Regimental Order No. 2 Head Quarters 3rd Regt SC vols Camp Hunter Hilton Head SC May 2nd 1863 - Hereafter no enlisted man will be permitted to leave camp without a pass from his Commanding Officer and approved at these Head Quarters Fernandina Contributes to the Regimental Colors The freedmen of Fernandina out of their own limited resources contributed to the regimental flag. See Fernandina Schools Colonel Milton S. Littlefield (excerpted from On the Altar of Freedom Corporal James Henry Gooding) After Fort Wagner, July 24, 1863 ...All the other company commanders are so severely wounded that it is feared some of them will never be able to resume the field again, and it is to be hoped that the steps for reorganizing the regiment will be speedily taken. It is due to what few officers we have left with us, to reward them with a step higher up the ladder. Col. Littlefield of the 3d S. C. Regiment, has temporary charge of the 54th. (...The temporary appointment of Col. Milton S. Littlefield from the 4th South Carolina (Colored), whose own regiment had to few men to remain in service, was not popular in the regiment or in Massachusetts from Emilio, History of the Fifty-fourth) Last Wednesday afternoon the companies were all formed in line in their respective streets, when Col. Littlefield addressed each company separately to this effect: "I have been requested by the paymaster to say that if the men are ready to receive Ten dollars per month as part pay, he will come over and pay the men off; you need not be afraid though that you won't get your thirteen dollars per month, for you surely will."...."all who wish to take the ten dollars per month, raise your right hand," and not one man of the 54th Regiment raised their hand. Sergeant Walker's Revolt (Black Troops , White Commanders and Freedmen During the Civil War) On November 19, 1863 Company A marched to the colonel's tent, stacked arms, and hung their accouterments on the stacks. Colonel Bennett asked what was happening. Sergeant Walker replies: "would not do duty any longer for seven dollars per month. Colonel Bennett told them that "they would be shot down." Walker told the men to leave their stacked arms and go back to their quarters. At the court martial which followed Colonel Bennett testimony was that it was Walker who told the colonel that the men would do no further duty. Walker commented on the quality of his company's command neither Articles of War nor Regulations were read. It was only on January 9, 1864 (the day of the trial) that the Third South Carolinia "being now relieved and allowed to drill its appearance and discipline is becoming excellent." Walker was found guilty and given a death sentence. On February 20 the sentence was confirmed by Commander Gillmore. He was executed in Jacksonville on March 1, 1864. The first firing party out of 11 shots only 1 hit him. He was finally killed by the reserve firing party. Colonel Higgison (formerly of the 1 South Carolina) said in a newspaper article that the officers would have e to continue: "as executioners for those soldiers who, like Sergeant Walker, refuse to fulfill their share of a contract when the Government has openly repudiated the other share." First U. S. Army Troops reoccuping Charleston, S. C. On February 18, 1865 as General Sherman marched north, the 21st USCT landed in the City of Charleston South Carolina to begin guard duty. Letter Requesting Teachers for the 21 U. S. C. T. - August 28, 1865 |
| Captain James Anderson post War |
| Col. Milton Littlefield |