10th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry

The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
The 10th Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Covington, Lexington, and Crab Orchard, Kentucky from September 8 through November 11, 1862. It mustered in for one year under the command of Colonel Joshua Tevis.

The regiment was attached to Cavalry, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862. Unattached, Army of Kentucky, November 1862. District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, District Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1863. Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to September 1863. (2nd Battalion attached to District of Eastern Kentucky to June 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1863.)

The 10th Kentucky Cavalry mustered out of service on September 17, 1863.

Detailed service
Duty about Mt. Sterling, Ky., and in the District of Central Kentucky, scouting and operating against guerrillas and protecting that part of the State, until September 1863. Skirmish near Florence, Ky., September 8, 1862. Expedition to eastern Tennessee December 24, 1862 to January 1, 1863. Parker's Mills, on Elk Fork, December 28, 1862. Operations against Cluke's forces February 18-March 5, 1863. Coomb's Ferry February 22. Slate Creek, near Mt. Sterling, and Stoner's Bridge, February 24. Slate Creek, near Mt. Sterling, March 2. Operations against Pegram March 22-April 1. Mt. Sterling March 22. Operations against Everett's Raid in eastern Kentucky June 13–23. Triplett's Bridge, Flemming County, June 16. Operations against Scott's forces July 25-August 6. Richmond July 28. Lancaster and Paint Creek Bridge July 31-August 1. Smith's Shoals, Cumberland River, August 1. Duty at Mt. Sterling until September. (2nd Battalion served detached in District of Eastern Kentucky. Expedition from Beaver Creek into Southwest Virginia July 3–11, 1863. Gladesville, Va., July 7.)

Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 75 men during service; 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 61 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

 * Colonel Joshua Tevis
 * Colonel Charles J. Walker

Notable members
Private Levi Ishmael, Company C. Grandson of Benjamin Ishmael, patriarch of the "Ben Ishmael Tribe" aka "The Worst Family in America"
 * Private William Louis Marshall, Company A - brigadier general & Chief of Engineers (1908–1910)