6th Field Artillery Regiment
| 6th Field Artillery Regiment | |
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| Active | 1907 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch | Army |
| Type | Field artillery |
| Motto(s) | Celer et Audax (Swift and Bold) |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Montgomery M. Macomb |
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| U.S. Field Artillery Regiments | |
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The 6th Field Artillery Regiment is a Field Artillery regiment of the United States Army first activated in 1907 from numbered companies of artillery. It was first organized with 2 battalions.
6th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Division]; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 1st Division; assigned 22 June 1940 to the 8th Division; relieved 20 July 1940 from assignment to the 8th Division.
Note that the lineage of the "6th Regiment of Artillery" constituted 8 March 1898 is carried by the 6th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.
The regiment currently has five battalions.
The 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment was constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, and organized at Fort Jay, New York, as Captain James Stille's Company, 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, and organized at Fort Jay, New York, as Captain James Stille's Company, 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain James Stille's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 9 June 1805 as Captain John Fergus's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 30 June 1808 as Captain William Wilson's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 3 June 1809 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Company, Corps of Artillery
Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Company, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 21 August 1816 as Company C, 3d Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company B, 4th Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 7th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps
(6th Field Artillery Regiment organized in 1907, with Colonel Montgomery M. Macomb as its first commander.)
Battery reorganized and redesignated 11 June 1907 as Battery D, 6th Field Artillery
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