3rd Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery was a unit of the United States Army based in West Tennessee during the American Civil War.[1] 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 ordinarily used them to man the larger caliber guns defending coastal and field fortifications located near cities and smaller population centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina."[2]
The magazine of the unit's Battery A exploded at Fort Pickering on September 24, 1864, killing two and injuring four.[3] A number of the black men killed in the Memphis riots of 1866 were soldiers of the 3rd Regiment.[4]
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- ^ "3rd Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2023-06-24.
- ^ Cunningham, Roger D. (Spring 2003). "Black Artillerymen from the Civil War through World War I" (PDF). Army History. U.S. Army Center of Military History: 5–19.
- ^ "100 years ago: Sept. 24, 1864". The Commercial Appeal. 1964-09-24. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-06-24.
- ^ "Memphis Riots and Massacres: Official Report". The Daily Memphis Avalanche. 1866-12-05. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
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