Companies of the 10th United States Infantry (Civil War)

Date: 12 Apr 1861 to 9 Apr 1865
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: us_civil_war

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

Officers

• Colonel
  • (*) Edmund Brooke Alexander- technically in command of the regiment, he spent the war serving in the Western Theater in Missouri
• Lieut.-Colonel
• Majors:
• Captains:
  • (*)Anderson D. Nelson - appointed Major, 1st Infantry, 13 March 1863
  • (*)Franklin Gardner - deserted to the Confederacy before 16 March 1861 and dropped from the rolls 7 May 1861
  • (*)Joseph L. Tidball - retired 1 Nov. 1861 because of diseases and exposure
  • William Clinton - was in command of the regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
• First Lieutenants:
• Second Lieutenants:

• (*)Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy.

Companies

• Headquarters

• Company A - broken up May, 1862, and the men absorbed by F and H

• Company B - broken up May, 1862, and the men absorbed by E, G and I

• Company C - broken up early March 1863, and remaining men transferred to G and H.

• Company D - sole remaining company left in the regiment by the start of 1864 with a strength of 128 men present and absent

• Company E - broken up early March 1863, and remaining men transferred to G and H.

• Company F - broken up early March 1863, and remaining men transferred to G and H.

• Company G - gained some men in March, 1863, from companies C, E, F, and I, when those companies were disbanded, and G was itself disbanded in late 1863 and its men transferred to Company D

• Company H - gained some men in March, 1863, from companies C, E, F, and I, when those companies were disbanded, and H was itself disbanded in late 1863 and its men transferred to Company D

• Company I - broken up early March 1863, and remaining men transferred to G and H.

• Company K - broken up May, 1863, and its men were transferred to D

Other

• Unassigned

• Killed In Action
• Died of Disease
• Prisoners of War