10th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

The regiment was mustered info Federal service at Providence on May 26, 1862. It moved to Washington, D. C. from May 27 to 29 and was attached to Sturgis' Command as part of the Military District of Washington. It saw duty at Camp Frieze, Tennallytown until June 26.

It was then assigned to garrison duty in the defences of Washington. Company "A" at Fort Franklin, "B" and "K" at Fort Pennsylvania, "C" at Fort Cameron, "D" at Fort DeRussy. "E" and "I" at Fort Alexander, "F" at Fort Ripley, "G" at Fort Gaines, "H" at Battery Vermond and Battery Martin Scott and "L" near Fort Pennsylvania.

The regiment left for home on August 25 and was mustered out of service on September 1, 1862.

Company B of the 10th Regiment was made up of about 125 students from Brown University and Providence High School.[1] Its captain for three months was Elisha Dyer, the former governor of Rhode Island.[1] Legend has it that Brown's President Sears consented to allow his students to enlist only on the condition that Gov. Dyer accompany them.[1]

Regiment lost 3 by disease

• Colonel (later Brig. Gen.) Zenas Bliss – Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Fredericksburg
• Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator for Rhode Island, 1881-1911

• The high school boys of the Tenth R.I. Regiment: with a roll of teachers and students of the Providence High School, who served in the Army or Navy of the United States during the rebellion (1882) at the Internet Archive