The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry

Cavalry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 10th Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Covington

Covington, Kentucky

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people, 18,257 households, and 10,132 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile . There were 20,448 housing units at an average density of 1,556.5 per square mile...

, Lexington

Lexington, Kentucky

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, and Crab Orchard, Kentucky

Crab Orchard, Kentucky

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 from September 8 through November 11, 1862. It mustered in for one year under the command of Colonel

Colonel (United States)

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 Joshua Tevis.

The regiment was attached to Cavalry, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio

Department of the Ohio

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, to November 1862. Unattached, Army of Kentucky, November 1862. District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, District Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1863. Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to September 1863. (2nd Battalion attached to District of Eastern Kentucky to June 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1863.)

The 10th Kentucky Cavalry mustered out of service on September 17, 1863.

Detailed service

Duty about Mt. Sterling, Ky., and in the District of Central Kentucky, scouting and operating against guerrillas and protecting that part of the State, until September 1863. Skirmish near Florence, Ky., September 8, 1862. Expedition to eastern Tennessee December 24, 1862 to January 1, 1863. Parker's Mills, on Elk Fork, December 28, 1862. Operations against Cluke's forces February 18-March 5, 1863. Coomb's Ferry February 22. Slate Creek, near Mt. Sterling, and Stoner's Bridge, February 24. Slate Creek, near Mt. Sterling, March 2. Operations against Pegram March 22-April 1. Mt. Sterling March 22. Operations against Everett's Raid in eastern Kentucky June 13–23. Triplett's Bridge, Flemming County, June 16. Operations against Scott's forces July 25-August 6. Richmond July 28. Lancaster and Paint Creek Bridge July 31-August 1. Smith's Shoals, Cumberland River, August 1. Duty at Mt. Sterling until September. (2nd Battalion served detached in District of Eastern Kentucky. Expedition from Beaver Creek into Southwest Virginia July 3–11, 1863. Gladesville, Va., July 7.)

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 75 men during service; 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 61 enlisted men died of disease.

Notable members

• Private William Louis Marshall
  William Louis Marshall
  William Louis Marshall was born June 11, 1846, in Washington, Kentucky, a scion of the family of Chief Justice John Marshall. At age 16 he enlisted in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry, Union Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1868 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers...
  
  , Company A - brigadier general & Chief of Engineers (1908–1910)

See also

• List of Kentucky Civil War Units
• Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when he declared "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." In a September 1861 letter to Orville Browning, Lincoln wrote "I think to lose...
  
  

External links

• History and alphabetical roster of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry taken from Thomas Speed's Union Regiments of Kentucky