10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
Active June 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Part of In 1862: 2nd Brigade (Devens's), 3rd Division (Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
Engagements American Civil War
Disbanded July 6, 1864
Commanders
Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs
Colonel Henry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[1]

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  1. Bowen, 196

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