10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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.[1]

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
ActiveJune 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
DisbandedJuly 6, 1864
Country United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
Size1,218
Part ofIn 1862: 2nd Brigade (Devens's), 3rd Division (Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
Commanders
ColonelHenry Shaw Briggs
ColonelHenry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge
Massachusetts U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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See also

Notes
  1. Bowen, 196

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.
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