10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment

The 10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Lebanon, Kentucky, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on November 21, 1861.

The regiment was attached to:

• 1861
  • 2nd Brigade, Army of the Ohio, 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, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, 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.

• 1862
  • Advance on Camp Hamilton, Ky., 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, thence to Nashville, Tenn. February 11-March 2.
  • March to Savannah, Tenn. March 20-April 7.
  • Expedition to Bear Creek, Ala. April 12–13.
  • Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss. 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, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky., In pursuit of Bragg August 20-September 26.
  • Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–16.
  • Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8.
• 1863
  • March to Gallatin, Tenn., and duty there until January 13, 1863.
  • Operations against Morgan December 22, 1862, to January 2, 1863.
  • Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 13, 1863; thence 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, Ga., 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, Ga., thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., and duty there until November.
  • Ordered to Kentucky November 14.

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.

• Colonel John Marshall Harlan, who raised the regiment[1] and would later serve as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Colonel William Hercules Hays
• Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Caldwell Wharton

• Private Henry B. Mattingly, Company B - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Jonesboro, September 1, 1864

• List of Kentucky Civil War Units
• Kentucky in the Civil War

• Dyer, Frederick H. (1959). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Sagamore Press, Inc. Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher. New York. LCCN 59-12963

• 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 Archived 2010-07-20 at the Wayback Machine