Colonel Adam Rankin Johnson (promoted to Brigadier General 6/1/1864)

Company B - Captain Lorenzo Dow Fisher, Captain William M. Marr. Men from Henderson County, KY; Montgomery County, Tennessee; and area surrounding Montgomery County, Tennessee.

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The 10th Kentucky Cavalry was officially organized as a regiment on August 13, 1862 at Nebo, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Adam R. Johnson, a native of Henderson, Kentucky, was elected Colonel and received formal appointment on November 4, 1862, to rank from August 13, 1862. Although it was Johnson's intention to recruit a partisan ranger unit, soon after organization, he was ordered by General Braxton Bragg to report with his command at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. At that time, the unit was attached to the 2d brigade of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry division. It would never again serve independently in Western Kentucky as had been Johnson's original intention. It took part in Morgan's famous Christmas raid and ill-fated Indiana-Ohio raid. While taking part in the latter, the vast majority of the regiment were captured and imprisoned, many for the remainder of the war.

Several modern day sources indicate that a portion of the regiment surrendered at Paducah, Kentucky in 1865. However, this writer has found no substantive proof that the 10th Kentucky Cavalry regiment existed as an organization after July, 1863. Those men not captured on Morgan's Indiana-Ohio raid subsequently served in a variety of units including the 2d Dortch's) Battalion Kentucky Cavalry, the 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, the 15th (Chenoweth's) Kentucky Cavalry, and the 16th (Sypert's) Kentucky Cavalry. This 1865 surrender claim appears to be based upon a statement made by Colonel James Q. Chenoweth in the book, The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army. In that book, Chenoweth stated that at the end of the war, he traveled to Paducah to formally surrender his men. At that time, Chenoweth's command included the remnants of Adam R. Johnson's short-lived attempt to recruit a brigade of cavalry in 1864.

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