3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment

3rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery
ActiveJan 1863 to 26 Sept 1865[1]
CountryUnited StatesUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchUnited States Army
TypeHeavy artillery
Size1897
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col. William S. Abert

The 3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment was a unit that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized from already mustered unattached companies of heavy artillery raised for the defenses of the Massachusetts coast.

  1. ^ As a regiment, it wasn't organized until the fall of 1864, but the first of the unattached companies it would later include was mustered on 10 Jan 1863