Tenth New Hampshire Infantry Regiment

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The Tenth New Hampshire 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 The regiment was organized at Manchester and mustered in under the command of Colonel Michael T. Donohoe.
September 22-25 The Tenth New Hampshire Infantry Regiment left the state and moved to Washington, D.C.
September 30 To Frederick, Maryland
October 4 To Sandy Hook, Maryland
October 6 To Pleasant Valley. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th 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, Virginia.
March 14 To Norfolk and Suffolk
April 12-May 4 Siege of Suffolk. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Corps, Deptartment 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, Department 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 Corps, Department 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, then to Cold Harbor
June 1-12

Cold Harbor
June 15-19

First Assault on Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins
June 15-19

Siege of Petersburg
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 Corps, Dept. of Virginia
1865
April 3 Occupation of Richmond
April-June Provost duty at Manchester
June 21 The Tenth New Hampshire Infantry Regiment was mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry