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Tenth Vermont Infantry.
Morris's Brigade —
Ricketts's Division--Sixth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | | 2 | | | | 14 |
| Company | A | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 25 | 25 | 138 |
| | B | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 19 | 19 | 124 |
| | C | | 11 | 11 | | 17 | 17 | 126 |
| | D | 2 | 10 | 12 | | 21 | 21 | 136 |
| | E | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 24 | 24 | 130 |
| | F | | 12 | 12 | | 17 | 17 | 128 |
| | G | 2 | 20 | 22 | | 19 | 19 | 136 |
| | H | | 18 | 18 | | 16 | 16 | 116 |
| | I | | 16 | 16 | | 25 | 25 | 134 |
| | K | | 16 | 16 | | 20 | 20 | 122 |
| Totals | 9 | 140 | 149 | | 203 | 203 | 1,304 |
149 killed == 11.3 per cent.
Total killed and wounded, 502; of the deaths from disease, 36 occurred in Confederate prisons.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Orange Grove, Va. | 17 | Opequon, Va. | 16 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 5 | Fisher's Hill, Va. | 2 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 3 | Cedar Creek, Va. | 24 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 54 | Petersburg, March 25, 1865 | 3 |
| Guerillas, Va. | 1 | Fall of Petersburg | 10 |
| Monocacy, Md. | 7 | Picket Line | 1 |
| Skirmishes | 3 | Place Unknown | 3 |
Present, also, at
Hatcher's Run;
Sailor's Creek;
Appomattox.
notes.--Organized at
Brattleboro, Vt., under the second call for troops.
Leaving the
State September, 1862, it was stationed on guard duty in
Maryland until July, 1863, when it joined the Army of the Potomac, soon after the
battle of Gettysburg.
It was assigned to
Morris's (1st) Brigade,
Carr's (3d) Division, Sixth Corps.
Under command of
Colonel Jewett, the Tenth first encountered the enemy at
Locust Grove (
Mine Run) in which action it took a commendable part, losing 11 killed, 56 wounded, and 2 missing. In March, 1864, the Third Corps having been discontinued, the division was transferred to the Sixth Corps.
The division, under command of
General Ricketts, took a prominent part in the storming of Cold Harbor.
The regiment, under
Colonel Henry, suffered severely in this unsuccessful assault, its casualties amounting to 28 killed, 131 wounded, and 3 missing. At the battle of the
Opequon, it lost 12 killed and 53 wounded,
Major Edwin Dillingham being among the killed.
It took 17 officers and 260 men into action at
Cedar Creek, losing there 16 killed, 65 wounded, and 4 missing. The campaign in the Shenandoah Valley having been successfully ended, the Sixth Corps returned to
Petersburg in December.
The Tenth was engaged in the grand, victorious assault on the lines about
Petersburg, April 2, 1865, with a loss of 44 killed and wounded, and was the first regiment in the division to plant its colors inside the enemy's works.
