United States Regiments & Batteries > New Hampshire


The 10th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 54 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 133 enlisted men died of disease in the Civil War.

1862
September 4 Regiment organized at Manchester and mustered in under the command of Colonel Michael T. Donohoe.
September 22-25 Left State and moved to Washington, D.C.
September 30 To Frederick, Md.
October 4 To Sandy Hook, Md.
October 6 To Pleasant Valley. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
October 27-
November 19
Movement to Falmouth, Va.
December 12-15
Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24 Burnside’s Second Campaign “Mud March”
February 9 Moved to Newport News, Va.
March 14 To Norfolk and Suffolk
April 12-May 4 Siege of Suffolk. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
April 19 Battery Huger, Hill’s Point
May 4 Reconnaissance across Nansemond River
May 13 Moved to Portsmouth then to Yorktown, Va.
June 24-July 7 Dix’s Peninsula Campaign, attached to 3rd Brigade, Getty’s Division, United States Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
July 1-7 Expedition from White House to South Anna River
July 8-14 Moved to Portsmouth
July 30 Julien Creek
1864
February 29-
March 1
Ballahock, on Bear Quarter Road, and Deep Creek
March 19 Moved to Great Bridge
April 19 To Yorktown. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of the James River against Petersburg and Richmond
May 7 Port Walthal Junction
May 7 Chester Station
May 9-10 Swift Creek (or Arrowfield Church)
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16
Battle of Drewry’s Bluff
June 17-27
Bermuda Hundred
May 27-31 Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor
June 1-12
Cold Harbor
June 15-19
First Assault on Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins

September 28-30
Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights
September 28-29
Fort Harrison
October 27-28
Battle of Fair Oaks
November Duty in lines north of James River before Richmond
December Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
1865
April 3 Occupation of Richmond
April-June Provost duty at Manchester
June 21 Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 2nd New Hampshire Infantry