10th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry The 10th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 10th Tennessee Cavalry was organized August 25 , 1863 in Nashville , Tennessee and mustered in for a three - year enlistment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington Bridges . The regiment was attached to District of North Central Kentucky , Department of the Ohio , to January 1864 . Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad , Department of the Cumberland , to April 1864 . 2nd Brigade , 4th Division , Cavalry Corps , Department of the Cumberland , to October 1864 . 2nd Brigade , 4th Division , Cavalry Corps , Military Division Mississippi , to November 1864 . 1st Brigade , 5th Division , Cavalry Corps , Military Division Mississippi , to February 1865 . 1st Brigade , 7th Division , Cavalry Corps , Military Division Mississippi , to March 1865 . Department of Mississippi to May 1865 . District of Nashville , Tennessee , Department of the Cumberland , to August 1865 . The 10th Tennessee Cavalry mustered out of service on August 1 , 1865 at Nashville , Tennessee . Detailed service . Duty in District of North Central Kentucky until January 1864 . At Nashville and Pulaski , Tenn . , and on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and Nashville & Northwestern Railroad until November 1864 . Scouts in Hickman and Maury Counties May 2 – 12 , 1864 . Long ' s Mill , near Mulberry Creek , July 28 . Clifton August 15 – 16 . Skirmish at Rogersville August 21 , 1864 . Pursuit to Greenville August 21 – 23 . Blue Springs August 23 . Operations against Forrest ' s Raid in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee September 16 - October 10 . Richland Creek , near Pulaski , September 26 . Pulaski September 26 – 27 . Guard Tennessee River October . Florence October 30 . On line of Shoal Creek November 5 – 11 . Nashville Campaign November – December . On line of Shoal Creek November 16 – 20 . Near Maysville and near New Market November 17 . On front of Columbia November 24 – 27 . Crossing of Duck River November 28 . Franklin November 30 . Battle of Nashville December 15 – 16 . Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17 – 28 . Hollow Tree Gap and West Harpeth River December 17 . Rutherford Creek December 19 . Richland Creek December 24 . Pulaski December 25 – 26 . Hillsboro December 29 . Leighton December 30 . At Gravelly Springs , Ala . , until February 1865 . Moved to Vicksburg , Miss . , thence to New Orleans , La . , February 6 - March 10 . Ordered to Natchez , Miss . , March , and duty there and at Rodney , Miss . , until May 25 . Ordered to Nashville , Tenn . , May 25 . Garrison duty at Johnsonville , Tenn . , until August . Throughout its term of service , the 10th Tennessee Cavalry was poorly equipped and greatly under strength . Brigadier General Richard W . Johnson , Commanding 6th Division , at Fayetteville , Tennessee , reported on February 8 , 1865 : " The troops under my command have killed 18 guerrillas and captured 12 , since my arrival here , not counting a number of men belonging to the 10th and 12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiments , ( U . S . A . ) who had deserted and become guerrillas of the worst type , who have been captured and forwarded to their regiments . " Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 207 men during service ; 1 officer and 24 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 1 officer and 181 enlisted men died of disease .