Initial Officers of the 10th United States Infantry

Date: 3 Mar 1855 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: us_civil_war utah_war

Officers

Initial Officers

• Colonel Edmund B. Alexander.
• Lieut.-Colonel Charles F. Smith.
• Majors: William H. T. Walker and Edward R. S. Canby.
• Captains: Henry F. Clarke,* Franklin Gardner,* James G. S. Snelling,* Barnard E. Bee,* John C. Symmes,* Matthew S. Pitcher (N. Y.), Nathaniel S. Webb (Conn.), Albert Tracy (Me.), Jesse A. Gove (N. H.), and John Dunovant (S. C.).
• First Lieutenants: Joseph L. Tidball,* 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.), and Curtis Dunham (Kan.)

• Captains Clarke and Symmes declined, and 1st Lieutenants A. D. Nelson* and Henry Heth,* 6th Infantry, were appointed to fill their vacancies. John Dunovant was the only captain who had seen no previous service.

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

Regimental Commanders

• COL E.B. Alexander (1855 - 1869)
• COL Henry Boynton Clitz (1969 - 1885)
• COL Henry Douglas (1895 - 1891)
• COL R. H. Offery (March 9 - October 1891)
• COL R. E. Pearson (1891 - 1899)
• COL Ezra P. Ewers (1899 - 1901)
• COL S. H. Lincoln (1901 - 1902)
• COL C. N. Noble (1902 - 1906)
• COL Henry Green (1906 - 1914)
• COL W. F. Blauvelt ( May 1914 - November 1914)
• COL S. W. Miller (1914 - 1916)
• COL Daniel Bradford Devore (1916 - 1917)
• COL E. A. Root (1917 - 1918)
• COL R. C. Grimstead (1918 - 1919)
• COL R. C. Langdon ( July 1919 - September 1919)
• COL J. P. O'Neal (1919 - 1920)
• COL Willis Vline ( May 1920 - October 1920)
• COL W. F. Cleary (October 1920 - March 1921)
• COL D. B. Devere ( November 1920 - March 1921)
• COL R. M. Brambila (1921 - 1924)
• COL J. F. Gohn (1922 - 1924)
• COL Dana T. Merrill (1924 - 1927)
• COL W. H. Waldron (1927 - 1929)
• COL F. S. Young (1929 - 1932)
• COL Edward Creft ( 1932 - 1933)
• COL Dana T. Merrill (1933 - 1935)
• COL Charles L. Mitchell (1935 - 1937)
• COL Rowan P. Lemly (February 1937 - March 1938)
• LTC Herbert A. Wadsworth (1938)
• COL Robert P. Bell (1943)
• COL W. M. Breckinridge (1944 - 1945)