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What are the differences between Regimenal Gun and Horse Artillery?

1. Both are small bore cannon (3 pounders, or six) and assigned to either Infantry Regiment (or Company), or Cavalry Squadron. What are the differences between the two?
2. In the Enlightenment era (and to the earlymoderns). What are the uniforms of these gun crews. the same regimental uniform just like anyone else? (British infantry usually wears red tunics, for example). or artillery ones like those of Artillery battery (Brits are blue)
3. Is there any such concepts of Regimental artillery units for Inf or Cav in American Civil War?
4. Did machineguns claim the roles of artillery weapons.
5. Are IG Heavy Weapons choice in 40k a kind of regimental guns or horse artillery?

Horse artillery was medium weight field guns with a large team organised to bring it into action nearer to the speed of cavalry than the speed of regular artillery.

Regimental artillery (or battalion guns) were pretty light pieces distributed in penny packets which were moved at the same pace as the infantry, and intended to supplement the firepower of the normal line infantry,

Uniforms during the period 1700 to 1900 were astonishingly varied and there is no use going into their details in a brief answer here.

In the ACW all field artillery was deployed in field artillery units. There were no regimental guns and no horse artillery. This is because the field artillery had become as manoeuvrable as Napoleonic horse artillery, and the concept of battalion had been invalidated.

The French deployed machine-guns like artillery in the Franco-Prussian War and it was a failure because proper field artillery had exactly the same degree of manoeuverability but much better range and firepower. Thus the French machine-gun units tended to get beaten by Prussian counter-battery fire they could not reply to.

IG heavy weapons choices are more like heavy machine-guns or light mortars of WW1 and WW2 than any kind of artillery.

1. When and why did the (Infantry) Battalion concepts became obsolete in the ACW? (No light cannons given to any Inf. battalion or regiment)
2. What about the Brits in the 19th century?
3. And do Gatling guns (both British and Americans) take the role of both? the early armies that have them assigned 1 - 2 to each infantry/cavalry regiment, (and as in case of Siam. Two 5cm Krupps were added to each infantry and cavalry rgt.)
4. Is the french 'grapeshoopters' a failed weapon or is it an organization problem?
5. Do the Antitank cannons (particularly in WW2 and slightly beyond) also a kind of regimental guns?