CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
10th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
- Overview:
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10th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Harper's Ferry during the late spring of 1861.
Four companies of the 4th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, a militia unit, were united with other
volunteer companies to make up the regiment. An eleventh company was added to the command
in April, 1862. Its men were raised in the counties of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Page, and
Madison. During the war it was attached to Elzey's, Taliaferro's, Fulkerson's, Colston's,
Steuart's, and W. Terry's Brigade. After fighting at First Manassas and McDowell, it was active in Jackson's Valley
Campaign. The 10th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the
Seven Days' Battles to Cold
Harbor except when it was on detached duty during the Battle of Sharpsburg. It was involved in Early's
Shenandoah Valley operations and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit reported
16 casualties at First Manassas, 21 at McDowell, 43 at Cedar Mountain, 32 at Second Manassas,
and 157 at Chancellorsville. Of
the 276 engaged at Gettysburg
more than twenty-five percent were disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 2 officers and
43 men. The field officers wer Colonels Simeon B. Gibbons and Edward T.H. Warren,
Lieutenant Colonels Dorilas H.L. Martz and Samuel T. Walker, and Majors Isaac G. Coffman and
Joshua Stover.
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