10th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

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The 10th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 3 men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
May 26 Organized at Providence for three months service under the command of Colonel Zenas Bliss, (West Point Class of 1854), Lieutenant Colonel James, Shaw, Jr., Acting Major Charles H. Merriman and Acting Adjutant Benjamin Thurston..

  • Company A – Captain William Taber
  • Company B – Captain Elisha Dyer
  • Company C – Captain Jeremiah Vose
  • Company D – Acting Captain Charles Dunham
  • Company E – Captain Hopkins Cady
  • Company F – Captain Benjamin Harris
  • Company G – Captain Albert Greene
  • Company H – Captain Christopher Duckworth
  • Company I – Captain William Hale
  • Company K – Captain G. Frank Low
  • Company L – Captain Edwin Gallup
May 27-29 Moved to Washington, D.C.
June Attached to Sturgis’ Command. Military District of Washington for duty at Camp Frieze, Tennallytown.

Assigned to garrison duty in the Defences of Washington:
  • Company A at Fort Franklin
  • Companies B and K at Fort Pennsylvania
  • Company C at Fort Cameron, mounting two 100-pounder Parrott guns.
  • Company D at Fort DeRussy
  • Companies E and I at Fort Alexander
  • Company F at Fort Ripley
  • Company G at Fort Gaines
  • Company H at Battery Vermont (mounting three 32-pounders) and Battery Martin Scott (a pair of unfortified 12-pounder mountain howitzers.)
  • Company L near Fort Pennsylvania
June 8 First Lieutenant William Smith became Captain of Company D.
June 9 Jacob Babbitt was promoted to Major. and First Lieutenant John Tobey of Company K was promoted to Adjutant.
June 29 Private William Atwood died at Georgetown Hospital.
August 6 Colonel Zenas Bliss was appointed Colonel of the Seventh Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, a three years regiment that was just forming. Lieutenant Colonel James Shaw was promoted to Colonel of the 10th Rhode Island.
August 8 Corporal James Flate was killed in an accident near Fort Pennsylvania.
August 11 Captain William Hale of Company I was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and First Lieutenant Samuel Thomas of Company B was promoted to Captain of Company I.
August 18 Private Matthew M. Meggett of Company B died in the Hospital in Fort Pennsylvania.
August 25 Left for Rhode Island to muster out.
August 26 Marched to Union Station and boarded trains heading north on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Baltimore, then transferred to the Nothern Central Railroad to Harrisburg.
August 28 Arrived at Elizabethport, N. J. After a reception by local citizens, the regiment was dispersed to local armories for the night.
August 29 Boarded the steamer, Bay State, and sailed from New York at 1:00 p.m.
August 30 Arrived in Narragansett Bay.
August 31 Debarked in Providence.
September 1 The 10th Rhode Island mustered out at City Hall.