10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

This article is about a regiment in the American Civil War. For the regiment in the American Revolution, see 10th Massachusetts Regiment.

10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
Active	June 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
Disbanded	July 6, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Size	1,218
Part of	In 1862: 2nd Brigade (Devens's), 3rd Division (Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
Commanders
Colonel	Henry Shaw Briggs
Colonel	Henry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a regiment of infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

See also

• Massachusetts in the Civil War
• List of Massachusetts Civil War units

References

• Bowen, James L. (1889). Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865. Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co. OCLC 1986476.
• Schouler, William (1868). A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. OCLC 2662693.

External links

• 10th Mass Volunteer Infantry (Reenactor Group)