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Tenth Vermont 10th Civil War Unit Regimental history
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The Tenth regiment was recruited from all parts of the State. Gen. William Y. W. Ripley of Rutland, a most gallant officer and intelligent gentleman, who had won a high military reputation as Lieut.-Colonel of the First U. S. Sharpshooters, was appointed Colonel, but on account of wounds received at Malvern Hill, from which he was then suffering, he was compelled to decline the appointment. Col. A. B. Jewett, who had been appointed Lieut.-Colonel, was then made Colonel. Captain Eaton, of the Second regiment, was appointed Major, but sickness prevented his acceptance, and Gen. William W. Henry, 1st Lieutenant Co. D, also of the Second regiment, was commissioned Major. John H. Edson was Lieut.-Colonel.Mustered into the U. S. service September 1, 1862, the regiment left Brattleboro on the 6th, reaching Washington on the 8th, and went into quarters at Camp Chase near Arlington Heights the next day. On the 17th the regiment was posted along the Maryland side of the Potomac River in little camps of companies from Muddy Branch to Edward's Ferry, and ordered to guard the fords. Remaining in these scattered positions until the middle of October, the outposts of what were known as the Defences of Washington, the regiment was then ordered to assemble at the mouth of Seneca Creek, a low marshy spot, a place which proved to be a camp of fever and death. In this region, at Offut's Cross-Roads, Rockville, White's Ford, Conrad's Ferry, Mouth of the Monocacy, and Poolesville, the regiment remained until the 24th of June, 1863, having been in the meantime brigaded with the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts, Fourteenth New Hampshire and Twenty-Third Maine regiments. To this brigade were added Sleeper's Tenth Massachusetts Battery, and a squadron of the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, commanded successively by Generals Stoneman and Grover, Colonels Davis and Jewett. The duties of these troops, during a period of nine months, were comparatively light, consisting of picket and guard duty at the fords of the Potomac and cross-roads a few miles into the country. Although t were a number of "scares" and reports of "The rebels are coming, " still, during all these months, the regiment had no encounter with the enemy. On the 22d of June the Tenth regiment received orders to march at once to Harper's Ferry; it was soon after incorporated with the Army of the Potomac, and assigned to the Third Corps, First Brigade, Third Division. Thence onward this regiment participated in the battles and marches of the Third Corps during the remainder of the military existence of that Corps, and in the destinies of the Army of the Potomac up to July 6, 1864. At the time of the reorganization of the Potomac Army in March, 1864, when the Third and the First Corps were broken up, the veteran troops of their heroic brigades were absorbed in the Divisions of the Second, Fifth, and Sixth Corps, and the Tenth regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, Third Division of the Sixth Corps. The first engagement of this regiment, which rose to the dignity of a battle, was the action at Locust, or Orange Grove, Va., on the 27th of November, 1863. Gen. W. H. Morris, its brigade commander, speaks of it in the following terms: "The enemy was holding a fence on the crest of a hill in our front. I ordered the Tenth Vermont to charge and take it, and the regiment advanced in gallant style and took the crest. I cannot speak of the conduct of the officers and men with too much praise; though the regiment had never before been under sharp fire, they behaved with the determined bravery and steadiness of veterans." Our losses were thirteen killed and fifty-seven wounded. Capt. H. W. Kingsley was severely wounded, and Maj. Edwin Dillingham on General Morris' staff was taken prisoner. Although this battle did not end the campaign, yet t was no more fighting in which this regiment was at all engaged. In the Wilderness Campaign of 1864, the Tenth regiment was fortunate in its position, at least, in the first day's series of battles, being upon the extreme right of the Union Army, and tf...
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