This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/772.2 Message Board Post: Most of the men who joined the 21st Alabama were from Mobile. Their records appear in alphabetical order in NARA microcopy M-311, reels 284-290. Lorraine, it sounds as if you have the service records of the two Clements men. If I'm not mistaken, the company of the 21st Alabama which surrendered at Fort Morgan was Company "A". Companies “D” and “K” abandoned Fort Powell, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and escaped to Cedar Point, Alabama. The rest of the regiment surrendered with the garrison of Fort Gaines on August 8, 1864, and received paroles at Ship Island, Mississippi, January 4, 1865. For instance, records of Capt. Martin Van Buren Crenshaw, commander of Company "I", show that he surrendered at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864, was exchanged at Ship Island, Mississippi, January 4, 1865, and surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi, May 10, 1865. It's possible that other men from the regiment were serving away from their companies, at Fort Morgan instead of Fort Gaines. It's just a bit surprising.