10th Ohio Cavalry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, October, 1862. Left State for Nashville, Tenn., February 27, 1863. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Cumberland, to November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Cumberland, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, Kilpatrick's 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to June, 1865. Dept. of North Carolina to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Murfreesboro until June, 1863. Expedition to Auburn, Snow Hill, Liberty, etc., April 2-6. Smith's Ford April 2. Snow Hill, Woodbury, April 3. Scout to Smithville June 4-5. Snow Hill June 4. Smithville June 5. Scout on Salem Pike June 12. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until August 16.

• August 16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign
  • Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River
  • September 19-21, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
• November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
  • Operations against Wheeler and Roddy September 30-October 17.

McMinnville October 4. Farmington October 7. March to relief of Knoxville November 27-December 8. Near Loudon December 2. Expedition to Murphey, N. C., December 6-11. Near Dandridge December 22-23 (Detachment). Dandridge December 24 (Detachment). Mossy Creek, Talbot Station, December 29. Schulz's Mill, Cosby Creek, January 14, 1864 (Detachment). Near Wilsonville January 22, 1864. Expedition to Quallatown, N. C., January 31-February 7 (Detachment). Quallatown February 5. Scout from Ringgold, Ga., to Lafayette April 24-25.

• May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • Stone Church May 1.
  • Lee's Cross Roads and Ringgold Gap May 2.
  • May 8-13, 1864 - Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia
  • Sugar Valley May 11.
    • May 13, 1864 - Combat at Resaca, Georgia
  • May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
  • Rome May 17-18.
  • Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
  • Near Stilesboro June 9 (Detachment).
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
  • On line of the Chattahoochie River July 3-17.
  • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Frogtown August 3.
  • Lovejoy Station August 10.
  • Sandtown and Fairburn August 15.
  • August 18-22, 1864 - Kilpatrick's Raid around Atlanta, Georgia
  • Camp Creek August 18.
  • Red Oak and Jonesboro August 19.
  • Lovejoy Station August 20.
  • Claiborne August 24.
  • Flank movement on Jonesborough August 25-30.
  • Fairburn August 27-28.
  • Red Oak August 28.
  • Flint River Station and Jonesborough August 30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
  • Campbellton September 10.
• Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 30-November 3.
  • Camp Creek September 30.
  • Sweetwater and Noyes Creek near Powder Springs October 2-3.
  • Van Wert October 9-10,
  • Dallas October 21.
• November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
  • Bear Creek Station November 16.
  • East Macon and Walnut Creek November 20.
  • Waynesboro November 27-28.
  • Buckhead Creek, or Reynolds' Plantation, November 28.
  • Louisville November 30.
  • Waynesboro December 4.
  • Ebenezer Creek December 8.
  • December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
• January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
  • February 11, 1865 - Action at Aiken, South Carolina
  • Blackville, S.C., February 11.
  • North Edisto River February 12-13.
  • Guenter's Bridge February 14.
  • Phillips' Cross Roads, N. C., March 4.
  • Rockingham March 7-8.
  • Monroe's Cross Roads March 10.
  • Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro, March 16.
  • Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
  • Raleigh April 12-13.
  • Morrisville April 13.
  • Bennett's House April 26.
    • Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina until July.
• Mustered out July 24, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 158 Enlisted men by disease. Total 201.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 705, 715, 717, 721, 723, 834, 835, 866, 1478-1479)