10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment


The 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was a Minnesota USV infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was recruited into Federal service at Garden City, Winnebago Agency, Fort Snelling and St. Paul, Minnesota, between August 12 and November 15, 1862.
CompanyPrimary Place of RecruitmentEarliest Captain
ASteele CountyRufus Carver Ambler
BDodge CountyAlonzo J. Edgerton
CWabasha CountyCharles Wesley Hackett
DGoodhue CountyWilliam Wallace Phelps
EFreeborn CountyJames A. Robson†
FWaseca County and Houston CountyGeorge Thomas White
GLe Sueur CountyEdwin C. Sanders
HRamsey County, Rice County, and Dakota CountyMichael H. Sullivan
ISibley CountyMartin J. Severance
KHennepin County and Ramsey CountyMichael J. O'Connor

Company I was formed in January 1863 with men from the deactivated Renville Rangers Militia. Future companies of the regiment such as the Le Seur Tigers fought at New Ulm. They were heavily involved the military actions of 1862 prior to joining the 10th. A Company had men at both the Battle of Birch Coulee and the Battle of Wood Lake. A detachment under Captain Richard Strout first fought at the Battle of Acton and Attack on Hutchinson. This unit would later become Company B of the 9th Minnesota Infantry. Companies G & I were later posted at Fort Ridgely. In December Companies A, B, F, G, H, and K were guards at the execution of 38 Santee Sioux in Mankato. Companies D, E, and H of the 9th Minnesota were there too. The Regiment was part of Gen. Sibleys force at the Battle of Big Mound, Battle of Buffalo Lake, and the Battle of Stony Lake. On May 4, 1863, Company G boarded the riverboat Davenport at Fort Snelling as the escort of the first eastern Dakota to leave the Pike island encampment. The Davenport and the G Company made three trips south with Native Americans. Afterwards the Regiment was sent south to the District of St. Louis. From there they joined the 1st Brigade, 1st Division Army of Tennessee and later the 16th Army Corps in west Mississippi. The 10th Minnesota Infantry was mustered out on August 18, 1865.

Casualties

The 10th Minnesota Infantry suffered 2 officers and 35 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, while 4 officers and 111 enlisted died of disease, for 152 fatalities total.

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