Category Archives: Artillery

Organized at Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee, 1864. A report by Colonel R. D. Mussey, Commissioner for the Organization of Colored Troops, dated October 10, 1864, stated that authorization for the Continue Reading →

Also called 2nd West Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment (African Descent) March 11, 1864, changed to 3rd U.S. Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored); April 26, 1864, changed to 4th U. S. Colored Continue Reading →

March 11, 1864, changed to 2nd U. S. Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored) April 26, 1864, changed to 3rd U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment. Organized at Fort Pickering, Memphis, in 1863. Continue Reading →

Mustered in at Knoxville, February 20-October 22, 1864, with men from the 2nd Congressional District; mustered out March 31, 1866. FIELD OFFICERS Colonel-John A. Shannon. Lieutenant Colonels-John A. Shannon, John Continue Reading →

Captain Louis B. Smith. Organized at Memphis, Tennessee, April 19, 1864. The battery was attached to the District of Memphis, XVI Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee until June, 1864, Continue Reading →

Also called 1st Tennessee Battery, (African Descent). Attached to 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment (African Descent) as Co. “M”. March 11, 1864 changed to Company “D” 2nd U. S. Light Continue Reading →

Organized at Nashville, Tennessee, early 1864. Not to be confused with Battery “A”, later “C”, which was a Louisiana Battery. A report by Colonel R. D. Mussey, Commissioner for the Continue Reading →

Formerly Captain William Keiter’s Battery -Captain W. Y. C. Humes’ Belmont Battery This company was enlisted at Nashville in the summer of 1861, and mustered into Confederate service on August 21, Continue Reading →

Date and place of organization not known. This is listed as a Tennessee Battery in the Official Records, but no muster roll of the company was found in the Tennessee Continue Reading →