Companies: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H1 | H2 | I | K | L
Johnson's 10th Kentucky Cavalry was officially organized as a regiment on August 13, 1862 at Nebo, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Adam Rankin Johnson, a native of Henderson, Kentucky, was elected Colonel and received formal appointment on November 4, 1862, to rank from August 13, 1862. Although it was Johnson's intention to recruit a partisan ranger unit, soon after organization, he was ordered by General Braxton Bragg to report with his command at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. At that time, the unit was attached to the 2nd brigade of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry division. It would never again serve independently in Western Kentucky as had been Johnson's original intention. It took part in Morgan's famous Christmas raid and ill-fated Indiana-Ohio raid. While taking part in the latter, the vast majority of the regiment were captured and imprisoned, many for the remainder of the war.
This unit should not be confused with Diamond's 10th Kentucky Cavalry, a Regular Army unit of CSA. Johnson's Cavalry was recruited in western Kentucky, while Diamond's unit was from eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia. To increase the confusion both cavalry units served under Gen. John Hunt Morgan at times during the war.
Companies enlisted in Kentucky from counties surrounding McLean were:
Daviess - E, H2
Henderson - L
Hopkins - I, K
Webster & Union - A, C, D, F, H1
Companies B & G were enlisted in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, and with the exception of four Officers from Henderson County, Kentucky, are less likely to include men from McLean.