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10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
ActiveJune 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
DisbandedJuly 6, 1864
Country United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
SizeRegiment
Part ofIn 1862: 2nd Brigade (Devens's), 3rd Division (Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
ColonelHenry Shaw Briggs
ColonelHenry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Bowen, 196

References

  • Bowen, James L. (1889). Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865. Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co. OCLC 1986476.
  • Schouler, William (1868). A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. OCLC 2662693.