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Every plan of campaign ought to have several branches and to have been so well thought out that one or other of the said branches cannot fail of success. -- Bourchet |
2d Battalion, 2d Infantry(718 total words in this text)(2151 Reads)  Organized between May and July 1808 in Pennsylvania, New York, or New Jersey Consolidated May-October 1815 with a company of the 16th Infantry (constituted 11 January 1812), a company each of the 22d and 23d Infantry (both constituted 26 June 1812), and a company of the 32d Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 2d Infantry Designated 22 May 1816 as Company B, 2d Infantry Consolidated 18 April 1869 with Company B, 16th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 2d Infantry (2d Infantry assigned 27 July 1918 to the 19th Division; relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 19th Division; assigned 24 March 1923 to the 6th Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 5th Division [later redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division]) Inactivated 20 September 1946 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina Activated 1 March 1951 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania Inactivated 1 September 1953 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania Activated 25 May 1954 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 2d Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division, and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Relieved 28 January 1959 from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division and assigned to the 24th Infantry Division Reorganized and redesignated 19 February 1962 as the 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 5th Infantry Division Relieved 12 July 1965 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division Inactivated 15 April 1970 at Fort Riley, Kansas Relieved 21 March 1973 from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division, assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington Inactivated 15 May 1991 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated in Germany ANNEX Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Organized 21 August 1861 at Camp Slemmer, Illinois Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company B, 16th Infantry Consolidated 18 April 1869 with Company B, 2d Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 2d Infantry 2d Battalion 2d Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit War of 1812: * Canada; * Chippewa; * Lundy's Lane; Alabama 1814 Mexican War: * Vera Cruz; * Cerro Gordo; * Contreras; * Churubusco; * Molino del Rey; * Chapultepec Civil War: Bull Run; * Peninsula; * Shiloh; * Manassas; * Antietam; * Fredericksburg; * Murfreesborough; * Chancellorsville; * Gettysburg; * Chickamauga; * Chattanooga; * Wilderness; * Atlanta; * Spotsylvania; * Cold Harbor; Petersburg; * Missouri 1861; * Kentucky 1862; * Mississippi 1862; * Virginia 1862; * Virginia 1863; * Tennessee 1863; * Georgia 1864 Indian Wars: Miami; * Seminoles; Nez Perces; Bannocks; * Pine Ridge; California 1850; California 1851; * California 1852 War with Spain: * Santiago Philippine Insurrection: * Streamer without inscription World War II: * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe Vietnam: * Defense; * Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase II; * Counteroffensive, Phase III; * Tet Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase IV; * Counteroffensive, Phase V; * Counteroffensive, Phase VI; * Tet 69/Counteroffensive; * Summer-Fall 1969; * Winter-Spring 1970 Decorations * Valorous Unit Award for AP BAU BANG * Valorous Unit Award for BINH DUONG PROVINCE * Valorous Unit Award for BINH LONG PROVINCE 1969 * Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1965-1968 * Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969 * Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1965-1970 Company C additionally entitled to: Valorous Unit Award for BINH LONG PROVINCE 1968 |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
