10th Michigan Cavalry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., September 18 to November 23, 1863. Mustered in November 18, 1863. Left State for Lexington, Ky., December 1, 1863. Attached to District of North Central Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Cavalry Brigade, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Lexington, Ky., until January 25, 1864. Moved to Burnside's Point January 14, and duty there until February 25. March from Burnside's Point to Knoxville, Tenn., February 25-March 6. Action at Flat Creek Valley March 15. Moved to Morristown March 16. Expedition to Carter's Station April 24-28. Rheatown April 24. Jonesboro and Johnsonville April 25. Expedition from Bull's Gap to Watauga River April 25-27. Watauga Bridge April 25. Powder Springs Gap April 29. Newport May 2. Dandridge May 19. Reconnaissance from Strawberry Plains to Bull's Gap and Greenville May 28-31. Greenville May 30. Bean's Station June 14. Wilsonville June 16. Scout from Strawberry Plains to Greenville August 1-5. Morristown August 2. Gillem's Expedition into East Tennessee August 17-31 (Cos. "E," "F" and "I" remained at Knoxville.) Blue Springs August 23 (Co. "A"). Bull's Gap August 24. Strawberry Plains and Flat Creek Bridge August 24. Park's Gap, Greenville, September 4. (Morgan killed.) Expedition from East Tennessee toward Southwest Virginia September 20-October 17. Carter's Station September 30-October 1. Thorn Hill, near Bean Station, October 10. Mossy Creek October 15. Sweetwater October 23. Morristown November 13. Russellsville November 14. Strawberry Plains November 16-17. Flat Creek November 17. Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia December 10-29. Bristol December 14. Near Marion and Wytheville December 17-18. Saltsville, Va., December 20-21. Expedition from Strawberry Plains to Clinch Mountain and skirmish January 28-31, 1865 (Co. "M"). Duty at Knoxville until March 21. Stoneman's Expedition from East Tennessee into Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina March 21-April 25. Brabson's Mills March 25. Boonesville, N. C., March 27. Henry Court House, Va., April 8. Abbott's Creek April 10. High Point April 11. Salisbury April 12. Statesville April 14. Catawba River April 17. Howard's Gap, Blue Ridge Mountains, April 22. Asheville April 26. Duty at Lenoir Station and Sweetwater until August, and in West Tennessee until November. Mustered out November 11, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 29 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 240 Enlisted men by disease. Total 271.
Lost 11 by disease.
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Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Page 1275)
