Company Unknown
Colonel
Formerly in the 5th Kentucky Infantry
Confederate service · kentucky
10th Kentucky Cavalry
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Company A
Private
No family notes have been added.
Company B
2nd Lieutenant
Served also in 5th KY Inf. CSA
Company B
Rank unknown
Afro-American. Captured at Saltville, Va. Sent to Camp Chase, exchanged 2/15/65. No further record.
Company C
Private
Enlisted on 26 Jan 1862 at the age of 30 in Webster County Kentucky to a Col. Johnson for three years. Thomas was wounded and captured twice. He was a Sgt. in Company 'A' 10 Regiment Kentucky Cavalry.
Company D
Rank unknown
Enlisted 10/8/62 Pikton, KY
Company D
Rank unknown
Captured at Cynthiana 6/12/64. aka Ephraim Slone. Slave of Christina Hatcher. 1870 Census living in household of Christina Hatcher. Believed to be buried at Harold, KY
Company G
Corporal
Great Great Grandfather
Company G
Rank unknown
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Company G
4th Sergeant
JEFFERSON DESKINS WAS WITH THE DIAMONDS KNOWN AS THE KY. YANKEE CHASERS tHE ROSTER CAN BE FOUND ON THE GOOGLE aLSO WAS jAMES dESKINS AND HARRISON DESKINS
Company I
Rank unknown
William H Vance is my gggrandfather. He was from Tazewell Co. Va. He was in Ky 10th Calvary Diamonds Brigade, know as the 'yankee chasers.' He was captured in Mt Sterling Ky. and sent to Camp Morton prison and died there Dec 22, 1864. He is buried in the Confederate Mound in the Crown Hill cemetary in Indianapolis IN. along with more the 1600 who died while POW's
Company K
Private
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Company K
Private
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Company L
Rank unknown
Harrison Deskins Lawson co. enlistment 3 -28 1861