Tag: 3rd US Artillery (Battery C)

Library of Congress says: Gibson’s Battery of horse artillery.

Wikipedia says: Constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 3rd Regiment of Artillery and organized from existing units with headquarters at Fort Washington, Maryland. The lineages of some of the units that initially made up the 3rd U.S. Artillery include campaign credit for the War of 1812.

Twelve batteries of the 3rd U.S. Artillery served in the American Civil War.