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Company B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (1861-1864) was a Confederate Army artillery battery during the American Civil War.While the unit was assigned to a Tennessee Artillery Regiment, it was originally organized as the McCown Guards or the McCown Guards Artillery, a volunteer company organized in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
Siege artillery is heavy artillery primarily used in military attacks on fortified positions. At the time of the American Civil War, the U.S. Army classified its artillery into three types, depending on the gun's weight and intended use. Field artillery were light pieces that often traveled with the armies.
Company C, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (Sterling's Company, Heavy Artillery) Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (Hoadley's Battery; Magruder Guards; Company D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion)
The 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery (USCHA) was a unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War. [ 3 ] The regiment was organized at Knoxville, Tennessee on February 20, 1864. [ 3 ]
Heavy artillery during the Civil War consisted of siege artillery, garrison artillery, and coastal artillery. Siege and garrison artillery were larger versions of field artillery, mounted on heavyweight carriages which allowed them very limited mobility: the M1839 24-pounder smoothbore was the largest one which could still be moved by road.
According to a 2003 article in the journal Army History, "More than 25,000 black artillerymen, recruited primarily from freed slaves in Confederate or border states, served in the Union Army during the Civil War...Federal military authorities armed and equipped the soldiers in these twelve-company heavy artillery regiments as infantrymen and ...
1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery Regiment; 1st New Hampshire Light Battery; 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery Regiment; 1st Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery; 1st Rhode Island Battery; 1st Rockbridge Artillery; 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment (African Descent) 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment; 2nd Arkansas Field Battery; 2nd ...
The list of North Carolina Union Civil War regiments is shown separately. [1] [2] Group portrait of the 60th North Carolina Infantry Regiment at the home of Lieutenant Colonel James Mitchell Ray for their 1889 reunion. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress