Color photo of head stone taken by Antone Nowotny

Name: John Berry Side Served: Union State Served: Missouri Service Record: Enlisted as a Private.
Enlisted in Company A, 10th Cavalry Regiment Missouri.
Sources: 304


REGIMENT: 10th Cavalry Regiment Missouri Date of Organization: 1 Oct 1862 Regiment State: Missouri Regiment Type: Cavalry Regiment Number: 10th Enlisted 
Died of Disease or Accident: 2 
Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 3 
Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 52 
Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 295 

Regimental History
Tenth Cavalry
MISSOURI
(3-YEARS)


Tenth Cavalry. -- Cols., F. M. Cornyn, A. J. Alexander, Lieut.-
Cols., W. D. Bowen, Thomas Hynes, F. W. Benteen, Majs., F. R. 
Neet, Thomas Hynes, F. W. Benteen, M. H. Williams, W. H. Lusk.

This regiment was originally recruited as the 28th Mo. 
infantry. It was changed to a cavalry regiment by order of the 
war department on Sept. 24, 1862, and on Dec. 4, 1862, the 9th 
cavalry was added to it.

Immediately after this consolidation the regiment, numbering 
about 1,200 men, rank and file, left Camp Magazine, near 
Jefferson barracks for the South. Owing to lack of 
transportation facilities it was moved by detachments, but was 
reunited at Memphis, Tennessee, and left that city on Feb. 7, 1863, 
for Corinth, Miss., where it arrived on the 15th.

Here Col. Cornyn was placed in command of a cavalry brigade, 
which was sent against Van Dorn at Tuscumbia. The Confederates 
were driven from the town in confusion and a lot of property 
was captured. This was the first successful cavalry raid made 
by any body of Federal troops, and Maj.- Gen. Hurlbut, to show 
his appreciation of it, sent the following despatch to Gen. 
Dodge at Corinth: "Return my thanks to Col. Cornyn and his 
command, for their gallant performance of severe duty."

In the expedition of Dodge's command from Corinth to Tuscumbia 
in April, Cornyn's brigade had the advance and was almost 
constantly engaged with detachments of the enemy, defeating 
them at Bear creek, Cherokee, Lundy's lane, and other points. 
This movement of Dodge's was to cover Streight's raid into 
Alabama and Georgia.

On the return to Corinth, Cornyn, with 1,220 men, met and 
defeated some 4,000 Confederates at Tupelo, the 10th Mo. making 
one of the most dashing charges of the war. It remained on 
duty in Mississippi and Alabama for the greater part of its 
service, being kept almost constantly engaged in raiding the 
country and destroying property that could be used to the 
advantage of the enemy.

It was one of the regiments with Gen. Wilson in his raid 
through Alabama and Georgia, and distinguished itself by its 
bravery at Montevallo and Selma, Ala., and Columbus, Ga.

On June 26, 1865, all whose term of enlistment had expired were 
mustered out, the remainder of the regiment was consolidated 
with 2nd Mo. cavalry on June 26, by order of the war department 
and was mustered out with that regiment on Sept. 19, 1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 276

Battles Fought
Fought on 18 Apr 1863.
Fought on 7 Jul 1863 at Iuka, MS.
Fought on 29 Nov 1864 at Memphis, TN.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Selma, AL.