Some member battalions of the 10th aided with the taking of Arkansas Post and Little Rock the following summer.

The 10th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry (Consolidated) mustered out on November 22, 1865, with members receiving their final pay and discharge on January 6, 1866, at Camp Butler.

[2] The regiment was ordered into New Orleans in a police action following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.

The regiment spent much of the latter part of that year fighting Native Americans outside San Antonio, Texas.

The 10th Illinois was made part of the Army of the Frontier and was stationed at Wilson Creek, Missouri.