Companies of the 10th United States Infantry (Antebellum)

Date: 3 Mar 1855 to 12 Apr 1861
Location: [unknown]

A roster of the 10th Infantry Regiment during the Antebellum period, sorted by company where possible.

Contents 1 Officers 1.1 Senior Officers 1.1.1 Majors 1.2 Captains 1.3 First Lieutenants 1.4 Second Lieutenants 2 Companies 3 Other

Officers

Senior Officers

• Colonel Edmund B. Alexander.
• Lieut.-Colonel Charles F. Smith.

Majors

• William H. T. Walker
• Edward R. S. Canby.

Captains

• Henry F. Clarke - declined position
• Franklin Gardner
• James G. S. Snelling - died 25 Aug. 1855
• Barnard E. Bee - resigned 3 March 1861, joined the Confederacy
• John C. Symmes - declined position
• Matthew S. Pitcher (N. Y.) - Captain of Company A and also Company F, died 17 Sept. 1858
• Nathaniel S. Webb (Conn.)
• Albert Tracy (Me.) - Captain of Company H
• Jesse A. Gove (N. H.) - Captain of Company I
• John Dunovant (S. C.). - only captain who had seen no previous service
• A. D. Nelson - appointed after both Symmes and Clarke declined the position
• Henry Heth - appointed after both Symmes and Clarke declined the position, became Captain of Company E.
• Joseph L. Tidball

First Lieutenants

• Joseph L. Tidball - appoint 1st Lieutenant 3 March 1855, appointed Captain, 10th Infantry, 25 Aug. 1855
• Alfred Cumming
• Cuvier Grover
• Louis H. Marshall
• Henry E. Maynadier
• Henry B. Kelly (La.)
• James Findlay Harrison (Ohio)
• William Clinton (Penn.)
• John McNab (Vt.)
• Nathan A. M. Dudley (Mass.).

Second Lieutenants

• Peter T. Swaine
• John H. Forney
• Lyman M. Kellogg
• Lawrence A. Williams
• James Deshler,
• William H. Rossell (N. J.)
• Alexander Murry (Penn.)
• Malcolm H. Nicholls (La.)
• William Kearny (Mo.)
• Curtis Dunham (Kan.)

Companies

• Headquarters
• Company A
• Company B
• Company C
• Company D
• Company E
• Company F
• Company G
• Company H
• Company I
• Company K

Other

• Unassigned

• Killed In Action
• Died of Disease
• Died in Military Service
• Prisoners of War

• Honorably Discharged

• Deserters