TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY. When rebels seek our subjugation? Perish the thought! our blades are drawn, Thick as the summer blades of corn, Swift to defend our bleeding nation. ” The raising of the 10th Infantry was commenced by the appointment of the field officers, November 20th, 1861, when recruiting for it was at once begun, [...]
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A second flag the gift of Colonel Lum was given to the regiment immediately preceding the Atlanta campaign, which was carried through that campaign and the Sherman march to the sea. The 10th was mustered into the service as a regiment on February 6th 1862. FIELD AND STAFF Charles M. Lum, Colonel, Detroit. Christopher J. [...]
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Owing to an unaccountable delay in the payment of the regiment, it did not leave the State until the 22d of April, when, with a force of 997 officers and men on its rolls, it went to the field in command of Colonel Lum, and on reaching Pittsburg Landing, Mississippi, reported to General Halleck on [...]
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Colonel Lum being in command of the brigade since the 2d of May. On September 3d the regiment, under orders, commenced a march for Nashville, meeting with slight opposition by guerillas near Athens, Pulaski, and Columbia, whose attacks were mainly upon the train and guard. On the 11th it bivouacked within two miles of Nashville, [...]
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On the 3d of January, 1863, Companies “A” and “D, ” while guarding a supply train on the Murfreesboro road, were attacked by a large force of guerrillas and repulsed them, killing fifteen and taking as many more prisoners, without loss to themselves. On the 25th a squad of men, guarding a construction train, were [...]
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Simultaneously with the attack the train was thrown from the track in consequence of two of the rails being slightly displaced. The guards were stationed upon the top of passenger cars and one platform car, and were under the command of Lieutenant Frank W. Vanderburgh. They suffered severely from the first volley fired by the [...]
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The fire, however, had done very little damage to the engine, and it was saved Lieutenant Nichols gathered up the wounded, who were taken to some houses near by and made as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. ” A surgeon connected with the army, whose name I have been unable to learn, was on [...]
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It continued to move toward Knoxville for some days, when receiving orders to return again to the Tennessee river, it started for Columbus on the 7th of December, arriving there on the 9th. The regiment remained at Columbus until the 15th, proceeding from thence to Chattanooga, which it reached on the 19th. The men, since [...]
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Lieutenant Colonel Dickerson, commanding the regiment, was among its wounded, and was taken prisoner. This most severe and unexpected loss to this gallant regiment was much regretted in Michigan, and the sympathies of the people went out in honest and heartfelt expressions to those who had been so suddenly bereaved while so fondly hoping for [...]
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There our brigade formed in line of battle on the extreme left of the army, and to the left of the road leading to Tunnell Hill. The enemy lay encamped in considerable force about one mile south of Tunnell Hill. Our brigade moved through the woods on the left of the village in such a [...]
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