10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment

10th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry
(125th Indiana Regiment)
10th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry; (125th Indiana Regiment)
	Flag of the United States, 1863–1865
Active	December 30, 1863, to August 31, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Engagements	Battle of Decatur; Third Battle of Murfreesboro

The 10th Regiment Indiana Cavalry, also designated the 125th Indiana Regiment, was a Cavalry Regiment raised in southern Indiana to fight in the American Civil War.

History

The 10th Regiment Indiana Cavalry was organized at Columbus and Vincennes, Indiana, in the winter of 1863 through the spring of 1864. In command of the Regiment was Colonel Thomas N. Pace. The Regimental Companies were:

Organization

Company A - Men primarily recruited from Posey and Vanderburgh counties
Company B - Men primarily recruited from Gibson, Knox, Posey and Vanderburgh counties
Company C - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings and Warren counties
Company D - Men primarily recruited from Switzerland County
Company E - Men primarily recruited from Clark County
Company F - Men primarily recruited from Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
Company G - Men primarily recruited from Dubois, Gibson, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
Company H - Men primarily recruited from Jefferson County
Company I - Men primarily recruited from Monroe County
Company K - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Gibson, and Posey counties
Company L - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Jennings, and Lawrence counties
Company M - Men primarily recruited from Dubois, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties

Army Organization

Date	Organization
June 1864 through November 1864	Attached to the District of Northern Alabama Department of the Cumberland
November 1864 through March 1865	Attached to the 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi
March 1865 through May 1865	Attached to the 2nd Brigade, Grierson's 1st Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi
May 1865 through June 1865	Attached to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi
June 1865 through August 1865	Attached to the District of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Military Division of the Mississippi

Time Line

Once the Regiment was moved into Pulaski, Tennessee, the 10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment was broken up into detachments for a variety of missions.

Date	Battle or Engagement of Service
June 1 – November 26, 1864	Duty at Pulaski, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, guarding Northern Alabama Railroad by detachments
September 2, 1864	Action at Elk River
September 25, 1864	Sulphur Branch Trestle
September 26, 1864	Richland Creek, near Pulaski, Tennessee
September 26 – 27, 1864	Repulse of Forest's attack on Pulaski, Tennessee
October 1–2, 1864	Athens, Tennessee
October 26 – 29, 1864	Murfreesboro, Tennessee
November 26, 1864	Moved to Nashville, Tennessee
December 1, 1864	A Detachment at Decatur, Alabama - Siege of Decatur
December 5 – 17, 1864	A Detachment moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and participated in the Siege of Murfreesboro
December 5–8, 1864	"The Cedars"
December 13 – 14, 1864	Owen's Cross Roads
December 15 – 16, 1864	Battle of Nashville, Tennessee
December 17 – 28, 1864	Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River
December 17, 1864	Franklin and Hollow Tree Gap
December 25 – 26, 1864	Sugar Creek, Pulaski
December 27 – 28, 1864	Decatur, Alabama (Detachment)
December 29, 1864	Pond Springs, Alabama (Detachment)
December 31, 1864	Russellsville (Detachment)
February, 1865	Detachments brought together
February 12 – March 22, 1865	Moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi; then to New Orleans, Louisiana, and to Mobile Bay, Alabama
March 22 – April 12, 1865	Campaign against Mobile and its defenses
March 26 – April 9, 1865	Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely
April 12, 1865	Capture of Mobile, Alabama
April 13 – 20, 1865	March to Montgomery, Alabama
June – August 1865	March to Columbus and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Provost duty in Holmes and Attalla Counties
August 31, 1865	Mustered out at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 20 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 157 Enlisted men by disease. Total 182.

References

Dryer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. 1908.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 3, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 7, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1867
"The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3

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