Tag: 4th US Artillery

Wikipedia says: Constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 4th Regiment of Artillery and organized from new and existing units with headquarters at Pensacola, Florida. The lineages of some of the units that initially made up the 4th U.S. Artillery include campaign credit for the War of 1812. Company F carried the lineage of Alexander Hamilton’s New York Provincial Company of Artillery from this time until the regiment was broken up on 13 February 1901, with the lineage eventually transferred to the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment.

Lieutenant Stephen H. Weed commanded Battery B during the Utah War in 1860, and was killed at Gettysburg in 1863 as an infantry brigade commander.

Twelve batteries of the regiment served in the American Civil War. Battery B was part of the Union Army’s crack Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac. 1st Lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson was killed commanding Battery G at Gettysburg and posthumously received brevet promotions to lieutenant colonel.