"'...the magnificent fighting of the Eleventh Missouri'"

Major General William S. Rosecrans praised the 11^th Missouri Infantry’s fighting at the battle of Iuka in his words above. The 11^th Missouri Infantry (USA) may have been extremely small as to numbers, but it compiled an exceptional fighting record. At first these trans-Mississippians fought in some skirmishes in Missouri, then the men went on to serve on such fields as Corinth, Iuka, the siege of Vicksburg, Nashville, and Spanish Fort. Colonel William F. Fox wisely selected the unit as one of his featured “Three Hundred Fighting Regiments” in his Regimental Losses In The American Civil War, 1861-1865 (1898), and his brief history of the regiment is below.

For further information about the regiment see the following:

The 11^th Missouri Volunteer Infantry website: Compiled by Dennis Belcher, this website contains a roster, images of flags, biographies of important officers, and much other information.

“Mower's Brigade — Tuttle's Division--Fifteenth Corps.

（1) Col. Joseph B. Plummer, W. P., R. A.; Brig.-Gen., U. S. V.	（3) Col. Andrew J. Weber (Killed).
（2) Col. Joseph A. Mower, B. A.; Bvt. Major-Gen., U. S. A.	（4) Col. William L. Barnum.
（5) Col. Eli Boyer; Bvt. Brig.-Gen., U. S. V.

Losses.	Officers.	En. Men.	Total.
Killed or mortally wounded	6	98	104
Died of disease, accidents, in prison, etc.	2	179	181
Totals	8	277	285

Total enrollment, 945; killed, 104; percentage, 11.0.

Battles.	Killed.	Wounded.[1]	Missing.[2]	Total.
Dallas, Mo., Sept. 2, 1861	2	1		3
Fredericktown, Mo.	2	8		10
Farmington, Miss.	1	1		2
Siege of Corinth, Miss.	3	22		25
Iuka, Miss.[3]	7	66	3	76
Corinth, Miss.[4]	7	62	5	74
Holly Springs, Miss.	2	2	1	5
Jackson, Miss.	1	6	2	9
Vicksburg, Miss. (assault May 22）	7	85		92
Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.	5	39		44
Michanicsburg, Miss.		1		1
Richmond, La.		3		3
Tupelo, Miss.	1	6		7
Abbeville, Miss.		2		2
Nashville, Tenn.	4	83		87
Spanish Fort, Ala.	4	13		17
Guerrillas	2	6	2	10
Skirmishes	4	21	3	28
Totals	52	427	16	495

Notes.--This regiment was recruited in Missouri and Illinois during the summer of 1861, and organized at St. Louis in August. On the 6th of August, it moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., where it went into camp and remained until March, 1862, having been engaged in the meantime in several expeditions, reconnoissances, and skirmishes in Missouri, in some of which there was some brisk fighting, with several men killed or wounded. The regiment joined Pope's army, in March, 1862, and was engaged in the operations about New Madrid and Island Number 10. It moved thence to Corinth, where it took an active part in the siege. The gallantry of the Eleventh at Iuka, elicited special mention from General Rosecrans in G. O. No. 130, in which he calls attention “to the magnificent fighting of the Eleventh Missouri, under the gallant Mower.” The regiment was also honorably mentioned in the official report of Corinth. The Eleventh led the charge of Mower's Brigade in the grand assault on Vicksburg, May 22, 1863. In that desperate struggle it was the only entire regiment of the Fifteenth Corps that reached the fort, and the only regiment in that corps that planted its colors on the parapet. Colonel Weber was killed in the trenches at Vicksburg. The Eleventh was also hotly engaged in the battle of Nashville--then in Hubbard's (2d) Brigade, McArthur's (1st) Division, Sixteenth Corps--after which it accompanied the Corps to Mobile, Ala.

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¹Includes the mortally wounded.

²Includes the captured.

³Official Records; the United States Volunteer Register gives different figures.

⁴Official Records; the United States Volunteer Register gives different figures" (Fox, 413).

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