title: 10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment
text: # 10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment
  
  The 10th Regiment Indiana Cavalry, also designated the 125th Indiana Regiment, was a Cavalry Regiment raised in southern Indiana to fight in the American Civil War.
  
  ## History
  
  The 10th Regiment Indiana Cavalry was organized at Columbus and Vincennes, Indiana, in the winter of 1863 through the spring of 1864. In command of the Regiment was Colonel Thomas N. Pace. The Regimental Companies were:
  
  ### Organization
  
  * Company A - Men primarily recruited from Posey and Vanderburgh counties
  * Company B - Men primarily recruited from Gibson, Knox, Posey and Vanderburgh counties
  * Company C - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings and Warren counties
  * Company D - Men primarily recruited from Switzerland County
  * Company E - Men primarily recruited from Clark County
  * Company F - Men primarily recruited from Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
  * Company G - Men primarily recruited from Dubois, Gibson, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
  * Company H - Men primarily recruited from Jefferson County
  * Company I - Men primarily recruited from Monroe County
  * Company K - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Gibson, and Posey counties
  * Company L - Men primarily recruited from Bartholomew, Jennings, and Lawrence counties
  * Company M - Men primarily recruited from Dubois, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
  
  ### Army Organization
  
  | Date | Organization |
  | - | - |
  | June 1864 through November 1864 | Attached to the District of Northern Alabama Department of the Cumberland |
  | November 1864 through March 1865 | Attached to the 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi |
  | March 1865 through May 1865 | Attached to the 2nd Brigade, Grierson's 1st Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi |
  | May 1865 through June 1865 | Attached to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi |
  | June 1865 through August 1865 | Attached to the District of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Military Division of the Mississippi |
  
  ### Time Line
  
  Once the Regiment was moved into Pulaski, Tennessee, the 10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment was broken up into detachments for a variety of missions.
  
  | Date | Battle or Engagement of Service |
  | - | - |
  | June 1 – November 26, 1864 | Duty at Pulaski, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, guarding Northern Alabama Railroad by detachments |
  | September 2, 1864 | Action at Elk River |
  | September 25, 1864 | Sulphur Branch Trestle |
  | September 26, 1864 | Richland Creek, near Pulaski, Tennessee |
  | September 26 – 27, 1864 | Repulse of Forest's attack on Pulaski, Tennessee |
  | October 1–2, 1864 | Athens, Tennessee |
  | October 26 – 29, 1864 | Murfreesboro, Tennessee |
  | November 26, 1864 | Moved to Nashville, Tennessee |
  | December 1, 1864 | A Detachment at Decatur, Alabama - Siege of Decatur |
  | December 5 – 17, 1864 | A Detachment moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and participated in the Siege of Murfreesboro |
  | December 5–8, 1864 | "The Cedars" |
  | December 13 – 14, 1864 | Owen's Cross Roads |
  | December 15 – 16, 1864 | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee |
  | December 17 – 28, 1864 | Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River |
  | December 17, 1864 | Franklin and Hollow Tree Gap |
  | December 25 – 26, 1864 | Sugar Creek, Pulaski |
  | December 27 – 28, 1864 | Decatur, Alabama (Detachment) |
  | December 29, 1864 | Pond Springs, Alabama (Detachment) |
  | December 31, 1864 | Russellsville (Detachment) |
  | February, 1865 | Detachments brought together |
  | February 12 – March 22, 1865 | Moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi; then to New Orleans, Louisiana, and to Mobile Bay, Alabama |
  | March 22 – April 12, 1865 | Campaign against Mobile and its defenses |
  | March 26 – April 9, 1865 | Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely |
  | April 12, 1865 | Capture of Mobile, Alabama |
  | April 13 – 20, 1865 | March to Montgomery, Alabama |
  | June – August 1865 | March to Columbus and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Provost duty in Holmes and Attalla Counties |
  | August 31, 1865 | Mustered out at Vicksburg, Mississippi |
  
  Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 20 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 157 Enlisted men by disease. Total 182.
  
  