The 10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an

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that served in the

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during the

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Service

The 10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at

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, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on November 21, 1861 under the command of

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. The regiment was attached to: * 1861 ** 2nd Brigade,

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, to December 1861. * 1862 ** 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. ** 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. * 1863 ** 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Center,

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, to January 1863. ** 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. * 1864 ** 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to December 1864. The 10th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on December 6, 1864.

Detailed service

1862

** Advance on Camp Hamilton, Kentucky, January 1–15, 1862. ** Action at Logan's Cross Roads on Fishing Creek January 19. ** Battle of Mill Springs January 19–20. ** Duty at Mill Springs until February 11. ** Moved to Louisville, then to Nashville, Tennessee February 11-March 2. ** March to Savannah, Tennessee March 20-April 7. ** Expedition to Bear Creek, Alabama April 12–13. ** Advance on and siege of Corinth, Mississippi April 29-May 30. ** Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. ** Courtland Bridge July 25 (Companies A and H). ** Decatur August 7. ** March to Nashville, Tennessee, then to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg August 20-September 26. ** Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–16. ** Battle of Perryville, October 8.

1863

** March to Gallatin, Tennessee, and duty there until January 13, 1863. ** Operations against Morgan December 22, 1862 to January 2, 1863. ** Moved to Nashville, Tennessee, January 13, 1863; then to Murfreesboro and duty there until June. ** Expedition toward Columbia March 4–14. ** Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. ** Hoover's Gap June 24–26. ** Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. ** Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. ** Battle of Chickamauga September 19–21. ** Before Chattanooga September 22–26. ** Siege of Chattanooga September 26-November 23. ** Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. ** Orchard Knob November 23–24. ** Missionary Ridge November 25.

1864

** Reconnaissance of Dalton, Georgia, February 22–27, 1864. ** Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap, and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23–25. ** Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8. ** Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. ** Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8–9. ** Battle of Resaca May 14–15. ** Advance on Dallas May 18–25. ** Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. ** Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. ** Pine Hill June 11–14. ** Lost Mountain June 15–17. ** Near Marietta June 19. ** Assault on Kennesaw June 27. ** Ruff's Station July 4. ** Chattahoochie River July 5–17. ** Vining Station July 9–11. ** Peachtree Creek July 19–20. ** Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. ** Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. ** Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. ** Moved to Ringgold, Georgia, then to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and duty there until November. ** Ordered to Kentucky November 14.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 221 men during service; 2 officers and 70 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 5 officers and 144 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

* Colonel John Marshall Harlan * Colonel

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* Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Caldwell Wharton

Notable members

* Colonel John Marshall Harlan -

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of the

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* Private Henry B. Mattingly, Company B -

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recipient for action at the Battle of Jonesboro, September 1, 1864

Notes/references

Bibliography

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External links

Alphabetical roster of the 10th Kentucky taken from Thomas Speed's ''Union Regiments of Kentucky''

Site dedicated to the history of the 10th Kentucky Infantry
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