Tenth Battery,
Massachusetts Light Artillery
1862-1865
Tenth Battery,
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Abbreviations used: KIA, killed in action; DOW, died of wounds; WIA, wounded in action; MIA, missing in action; W/P, wounded, taken prisoner; P, taken prisoner; CBG, captured by guerillas; RTB, paroled and returned to Battery; VRC, Veterans Reserve Corps; DFP, discharged for promotion; D/D, discharged for disability; MOWB, mustered out with Battery; MO, mustered out;
| Name | Age | Town occupation |
Mustered | Record |
| Connors, Charles | 18 | Marblehead shoemaker |
8/26/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Cook, Francis A. | 22 | E.Boston farmer |
11/12/64 | D/D 5/20/65 |
| Corlew, Benjamin E. | 31 | Brookline collector |
9/9/62 | Transf. 12/3/63 ot VRC; dis'cd 3/19/64, order Sec'y of War |
| Cranston, George T. | 20 | Canton farmer |
9/15/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Crawford, Robert | 19 | Boston match maker |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Critchett, Moses G. | 35 | Candia, NH shoemaker |
9/9/62 | Deserted 5/23/63 @ Poolesville, MD |
| Cross, Joseph | 24 | Charlestown paper maker |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Currant, Joseph H. Cpl | 30 | E.Boston pattern maker |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 (as Sgt) |
| Cusick, Thomas | 18 | Brookline butcher |
2/18/64 | P @ Reams Station, VA 8/25/64; RTB 12/16/64; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Damrell, Edwin F. | 18 | Charlestown mason |
9/9/62 | WIA 5/12/64 @ Spotsylvania, VA; MOWB 6/9/65 {MHC} |
| Day, George H., 2 Lt | 20 | Charlestown cabinet maker |
9/9/62 | Sgt, 3/1/64; 2nd Lt, 11/1/64; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Devereaux, George N. | 21 | Charlestown sailmaker |
9/9/62 | WIA 8/25/64 2 Ream's Station, Va; DOW 8/27/64 [ K 5th Inf (3 mos)] |
| Devine, Timothy | 22 | Boston laborer |
10/22/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also K 5th Inf (3 mos), US Navy] |
| Dixon, George M. | 25 | Boston painter |
9/9/62 | D/D 1/21/63 @ Washington, DC |
| Doe, Charles W., Cpl | 21 | Marblehead cordwainer |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 (as Sgt) |
| Donnelly, William G. | 20 | S.Boston teamster |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Dwight, James | 28 | Charlestown seaman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Edwards, Joseph | 21 | Charlestown paper hanger |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Edwards, William | 28 | Charlestown milkman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Ellsworth, Thomas | 21 | Marblehead seaman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 [B 8th Inf (3 mos), US Navy] |
| Elsworth, James | 44 | Marlboro seaman |
1/29/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Endicott, William E. | 20 | Canton school teacher |
9/9/62 | P 8/25/64 @ Ream's Station, VA; paroled; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Estabrook, Luther L., Sgt | 40 | Boston teamster |
9/9/62 | Cpl, 11/1/63; Sgt, 12/7/64; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Estee, Francis M., Cpl | 26 | Charlestown ship's carpenter |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Ewell, Henry L. | 20 | Hanson shoemaker |
transf | Trn'frd from 16th Inf (date not shown); re-enlist and mustered 1/4/64; WIA 8/25/64 @ Ream' s Station, VA; DOW 11/21/64 @ Washington, DC [also A 16th Inf] |
| Fales, Edward A. | 23 | Barre farmer |
12/28/63 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also F 53rd Inf (9 mos)] |
| Farrell, Michael | 25 | Canton bricklayer |
9/8/64 | WIA 10/27/64 @ Hatcher's Run, VA; MO 7/5/65 @ Mower Gen'l Hosp, Philadelphia, PA while absent wounded |
| Fay, Asa W. | 25 | Barre laborer |
1/4/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Fisher, Alvin B. | 24 | Rutland blacksmith |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Fiske, Cahrles | 19 | Millbury polisher |
12/26/63 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Fitzpatrick, William H., QM Sgt | 33 | Boston auctioneer |
9/9/62 | QM sgt, 3/3/64; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Name | Age | Town occupation |
Mustered | Record |
| Floytrop, Emil Christian | 24 | Marblehead seaman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also US Navy as "Emil Wentworth"] |
| Foley, Michael | 29 | Boston sailor |
11/22/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Follett, Algernon P. | 33 | Rochester, NY moulder |
9/5/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Folley, Patrick | 25 | E.Abington shoemaker |
9/8/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 [name also borne as "Patrick Foley"] |
| Foran, Patrick | 19 | Somerville glass blower |
11/22/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Foster, Samuel H. | 19 | Barre farmer |
1/4/64 | WIA 10/25/64 @ Ream's Station, VA; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| French, John W. | 23 | S.Danvers shoemaker |
9/9/62 | D/D 2/5/63 @ Poolesville, MD |
| Friend, Ellis A. | 18 | Etna, Maine clerk |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Frost, John C. | 19 | Boston restaurant work |
9/9/62 | D/D 9/25/63 @ Washington, DC [also served in VRC to credit of NH] |
| Gallagher, James | 23 | Boston laborer |
10/25/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Gallagher, Patrick | 20 | Brookline laborer |
2/18/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Gilley, Richard G. | 26 | Marblehead seaman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also US Navy] |
| Glidden, Oscar F. | 20 | Brookline machinist |
9/9/62 | P 8/25/64 @ Ream' Station, VA; paroled; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Goldsmith, Richard, Cpl | 23 | Marblehead seaman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also B 8th Inf (3 mos) and US Navy] |
| Goodwin, John T. | 21 | Brookline teamster |
9/9/62 | WIA 5/10/64 @ Po River, VA and 8/25/64 @ Ream's Station, VA; MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Gould, Chandler, Sgt | 34 | E.Boston carpenter |
9/9/62 | Died (disease) 10/5/64 at General Hospital, Beverly, NJ |
| Gould, George F., Sgt | 33 | E.Boston cooper |
9/9/62 | DFP 9/22/64 [29th Hvy Arty] |
| Gowell, Asa L. | 27 | Boston teamster |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Granger, Henry H., 1 Lt | 45 | Hardwick painter |
9/9/62 | WIA 10/27/64 @ Hatcher's Run, VA; DOW, 10/30/64 @ City Point, VA; Brevet Lt. Col. |
| Green, Charles W. | 21 | S.Boston machinist |
9/9/62 | P 8/25/64 @ Ream's Station, Va; died 1/13/65 @ Salisbury, NC as POW |
| Green, Milbury, 2 Lt | 32 | Dorchester physician |
11/25/64 | 1st Lt, 2/27/65; MOWB 6/9/65, Brevet Major [also 3 years 1st Battery] |
| Haley, Michael | 18 | Swampscott fisherman |
2/12/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 [ also US Navy] |
| Ham, Llewellyn | 21 | Brookline farmer |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Handlin, John | 36 | Newton Upper Falls laborer |
1/7/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Hanson, Samuel A. | 23 | Charlestown fireman |
9/9/62 | D/D 5/23/63 @ Boston, MA |
| Harrington, Otis N., Sgt | 25 | Brookline photographer |
9/9/62 | Died (disease), 7/30/63 @ Washington, DC |
| Hayden, Joseph W. | 44 | Quincy bootmaker |
1/15/64 | 3/29/64 attached to K 4th US Arty; reported as absent, sick 4/30/64, no further record [also D 39 Inf] |
| Herlihy, Timothy | 18 | Abington shoemaker |
10/3/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Herring, William | 33 | Needham expressman |
9/9/62 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
| Hill, Edwin A. | 18 | Ware mechanic |
12/5/64 | MOWB 6/9/65 [also F 60th Inf (100 days)] |
| Hill, Pierce T. | 44 | Marblehead cordwainer |
12/21/63 | MOWB 6/9/65 |
{Final Resting Place - MHC, Mount Hope Cemetary, Boston; MAC, Mount Auburn Cemetary, Cambridge}
note - a "cordwainer" was a shoemaker.
Other units referred to: 1st Mass Battery; 3rd Mass Heavy Artillery; 4th Mass Heavy Artillery; 16th Battery Mass Light Artillery; 29th Unnattached Company of Heavy Artillery; 4th Mass Infantry; 5th Mass Infantry; 8th Mass Infantry; 14th Battery Mass Light Artillery; 25th Mass Infantry [Any unit not designated US, or by state, are Massachusetts units.]
This information compiled from Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, The Adjutant General, 1932, and Sleeper's 10th Massachusetts Battery, by John D. Billings, 1881 with additional information from the Massachusetts Military Archives, Worcester, MA, and is presented by the Tenth Mass Battery Association.
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