UNION MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS
3rd Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
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Organized for one year August, 1864, by consolidation of 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Unattached Companies Heavy Artillery. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, and engaged in garrison duty in the Defences of Washington, north of the Potomac, to September, 1865. (For Co. "I," 13th Unattached Company, see 13th Unattached Company.) Mustered out September 18, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 1 Officer and 38 Enlisted men by disease. Total 41.
Predecessor Unit
MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS
14th UNATTACHED COMPANY INFANTRY MILITIA
Fourteenth-Organized May 12, 1864. Sailed from Gallop's Island for Washington, D. C., June 23, 1864, and garrison duty in the Defences of that city till August, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, June to August, 1864. Assigned to 3rd Heavy Artillery August, 1864, as Company "K."