10th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Field & Staff
10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Jonesboro,
Georgia, in June, 1861, and in July moved to Virginia. Its companies
were recruited in the counties of Clayton, Chattahoochee, De Kalb,
Wilcox, Bibb, Richmond, Fayette, and Pulaski. During the war it
was assigned to General Semmes', Bryan's, and Simms' Brigade,
Army of Northern Virginia. The 10th fought on many battlefields
of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Gettysburg, then moved
with Longstreet to Georgia but was not engaged at Chickamauga.
After the Knoxville Campaign it returned to Virginia and saw action
at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Later the regiment
was involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox
Campaign. It lost seventeen percent of the 345 engaged at Savage
Station, thirty-four percent of the 174 at Crampton's Gap, and
fifty-six percent of the 148 at Sharpsburg. Its casualties were
23 killed and 105 wounded at Chancellorsville, and of the 303
who saw action at Gettysburg, thirty-two percent were killed,
wounded, or missing. Only 2 officers and 48 men surrendered in
April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Alfred Cumming,
Willis C. Holt, Andrew J. McBride, and John B. Weems; Lieutenant
Colonel Charles C. Kibbee; and Majors Richard R. Hawes and Philologus
H. Loud.
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