1st Regiment Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troops
The 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery (USCHA) was a unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was organized at Knoxville, Tennessee on February 20, 1864. The organization of the regiment may have been instigated in some small part by Lt. Colonel Thomas Jefferson Morgan, Thomas J. Morgan, commander of the 14th U.S. Colored Troops. In an 1893 reminiscence, John Encill MacGowan wrote that circa April 1864 at Knoxville he was the "senior officer in charge of organizing the First United States Colored Heavy Artillery." The unit was stationed at Knoxville until January, 1865, and then were based in Greeneville, Tennessee, Greeneville, District of East Tennessee, until March, 1866. The regiment was mustered out March 31, 1866. The newly organized unit was supervised by "General Davis Tillson, Chief of Artillery, Department of Ohio, commanding defenses of Knoxville, Loudon and Kingston." The regiment had between 1,100 and 1,700 soldiers ...
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The Photographic History Of The Civil War - Thousands Of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, With Text By Many Special Authorities (1911) (14576310149)
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