The 10th Tennessee Cavalry was organized August 25, 1863, in Nashville, Tennessee, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington Bridges.
The regiment was attached to District of North Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to January 1864.
Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Department of the Cumberland, to April 1864.
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864.
District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to August 1865.
Operations against Forrest's Raid in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee September 16-October 10.
Hollow Tree Gap and West Harpeth River December 17.
Throughout its term of service, the 10th Tennessee Cavalry was poorly equipped and greatly under strength.
Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson, Commanding 6th Division, at Fayetteville, Tennessee, reported on February 8, 1865: "The troops under my command have killed 18 guerrillas and captured 12, since my arrival here, not counting a number of men belonging to the 10th and 12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiments, (U.S.A.) who had deserted and become guerrillas of the worst type, who have been captured and forwarded to their regiments."