HISTORICAL NOTES:
The Kentucky 10th Cavalry Regiment was formed during the fall of 1863 using May's Kentucky Mounted Battalion as its nucleus. It contained men from Kentucky and Virginia. It skirmished in various conflicts in Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. In the spring of 1865 it disbanded.
OFFICERS:
Colonels George R. Diamond, Andrew J. May, and Edwin Trimble, and Major William R. Lee.
ASSIGNMENTS:
The unit served in the Department of East Tennessee and the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee
SERVICE: Roster:
The roster of this unit contains the names of 1033 men.
Company A – (Many men mustered in from Webster County, Kentucky.
Company B - Many men mustered in from Clarksville, Tennessee.
Company C - Many men mustered in from Union County, and Webster County, Kentucky. Company C was mounted on horses taken from the enemy on that side of the Ohio. It drove the Federals from Caseyville, Kentucky, and captured several transports on the Ohio River.
Company D - Many men mustered in from Union County, Kentucky
Company E - Many men mustered in from Daviess County, Kentucky. Company E and H were with General Morgan in his last expedition to Kentucky,(in the winter of 1862-63), and returned with him.
Company F - Many men mustered in from Union County, Kentucky.
Company G - Many men mustered in from Clarksville, Tennessee.
Company H - Many men mustered in from Daviess County, and Union County, Kentucky. Company E and H were with General Morgan in his last expedition to Kentucky,(in the winter of 1862-63), and returned with him.
Company I - Many men mustered in from Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Company K - Many men mustered in from Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Company L - Many men mustered in from Henderson County, Kentucky.
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