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Pages in category "Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 368 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the artillery branch to support infantry and cavalry forces in the field. It does not include siege artillery , use of artillery in fixed fortifications, coastal or naval artillery .
1st Regiment Indiana Heavy Artillery was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed the "Jackass Regiment". Before being converted into an artillery unit in 1863, it served as the 21st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit organized in September 1861 from the elements of two infantry regiments and served until 14 June 1865.
Originally mustered in as 19th New York Infantry Regiment on May 22, 1861. Re-designated 3rd New York Light Artillery Regiment on December 11, 1862. 1st New York Heavy Artillery Battalion: Units converted into independent light artillery batteries 3rd New York Heavy Artillery Battalion: Became part of the 15th Heavy Artillery Regiment
The units were designated "unattached" as they did not belong to a particular regiment. Officers of the 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 1865 In the spring of 1864, the 3rd Unattached Company, along with the 6th through 12th, were ordered to Washington, DC , where they were to garrison the forts protecting the capital.
The 7th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, U.S. Volunteers was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment operated as both heavy artillery and infantry beginning in December 1862 while serving in the defenses of Washington, D.C., and continued in both capacities until the end of the war.
Edenton Bell Battery refers to an artillery unit from North Carolina that served for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War, the four named guns the unit served throughout the war, and to an American Civil War reenactment group based in Edenton, North Carolina inspired by the original unit.