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Tenth Massachusetts Infantry.
Eustis's Brigade —
Getty's Division--Sixth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | | 8 | 8 | | 4 | 4 | 118 |
| | B | 2 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 111 |
| | C | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 7 | 7 | 128 |
| | D | | 14 | 14 | | 4 | 4 | 115 |
| | E | | 10 | 10 | | 4 | 4 | 112 |
| | F | | 10 | 10 | | 4 | 4 | 120 |
| | G | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 4 | 4 | 122 |
| | H | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 6 | 6 | 140 |
| | I | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 9 | 9 | 127 |
| | K | | 15 | 15 | | 7 | 7 | 109 |
| Totals | 10 | 124 | 134 | 1 | 55 | 56 | 1,218 |
134 killed == 11 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 503.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 39 | Rappahannock Station, Va. | 3 |
| Guerillas, Va., June 19, 1862 | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 30 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 13 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 26 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. (1863） | 16 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 4 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. | 1 |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
Williamsburg; Seven Days Battle;
Antietam;
Fredericksburg (1862);
Salem Heights;
Mine Run.
notes.--Recruited in
Western Massachusetts.
Arrived at
Washington July 28, 1861, and remained in its vicinity until the army moved to the
Peninsula, in March, 1862, It was assigned to
Devens's (3d) Brigade,
Couch's (1st) Division, Fourth Corps.
Under command of
Colonel Briggs it distinguished itself at
Fair Oaks, the
Colonel being wounded, and the casualties amounting to 27 killed, 95 wounded, and 2 missing.
Major Ozro Miller, a gallant officer, succeeded to the command, but fell, mortally wounded, soon after at
Malvern Hill.
Colonel Eustis was in command at Second
Fredericksburg and
Salem Heights, in which the casualties amounted to to killed, 57 wounded, and 2 missing. The brigade had been previously transferred to
Newton's (3d) Division, Sixth Corps.
The brigade took the field in May, 1864, under command of
General Eustis, as the Fourth Brigade of
Getty's (2d) Division, Sixth Corps.
Colonel Parsons led the regiment in the battles of
Grant's campaigns, its losses at the
Wilderness amounting to 21 killed, 105 wounded, and 2 missing,--over one-third of those engaged.
A still heavier percentage of loss occurred in the various actions about
Spotsylvania (15 killed, 64 wounded, and 13 missing),
Major Dexter F. Parker being mortally wounded there.
The action of May 12th, at
Spotsylvania, was the closest and deadliest of any in which the Tenth had been engaged.
On June 20, 1864, while in the trenches before
Petersburg, the regiment received the orders to return home for muster-out; one of the officers was killed just before the regiment left its position to go home.
