Constituted 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company of the 8th Infantry

Organized in 1812 in Tennessee, Georgia, or the adjacent territories

Consolidated May-October 1815 with a company of the 24th Infantry (constituted 26 June 1812) and a company of the 39th Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 7th Infantry

Designated 21 August 1816 as Company B, 7th Infantry

Consolidated 4 June 1869 with Company B, 36th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 7th Infantry

(7th Infantry assigned 21 November 1917 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division])

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 7th Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division, and assigned to the 10th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Battle Group inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Redesignated 18 April 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 7th Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division

Activated 20 June 1963 in Germany

Inactivated 1 May 1966 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division

Assigned 16 December 1987 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 3d Battalion, 18th Infantry

Organized in December 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio

Reorganized and redesignated 26 December 1866 as Company B, 36th Infantry

Consolidated 4 June 1869 with Company B, 7th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 7th Infantry

2d Battalion
7th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

War of 1812: * Canada; New Orleans; * Florida 1814; Louisiana 1815

Mexican War: Monterey; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; * Contreras; * Churubusco; * Molino del Rey; * Chapultepec; * Texas 1846

Civil War: * Fredericksburg; * Murfreesborough; * Chancellorsville; * Gettysburg; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Atlanta; * New Mexico 1861; New Mexico 1862; * Kentucky 1862; * Mississippi 1862; * Tennessee 1862; Tennessee 1863; Georgia 1864

Indian Wars: * Creeks; * Seminoles; * Little Big Horn; Nez Perces; * Utes; Pine Ridge; New Mexico 1860; Wyoming 1866; Montana 1872

War with Spain: * Santiago

Philippine Insurrection: Samar 1901; Samar 1902

World War I: * Aisne; * Champagne-Marne; * Aisne-Marne; * St. Mihiel; * Meuse-Argonne; * Champagne 1918; * Ile de France 1918

World War II: * Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); * Tunisia; * Sicily (with arrowhead); * Naples-Foggia; * Anzio (with arrowhead); * Rome-Arno; * Southern France (with arrowhead); * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

Korean War: * CCF Intervention; * First UN Counteroffensive; * CCF Spring Offensive; * UN Summer-Fall Offensive; * Second Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; * Third Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer 1953

Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CHOKSONG

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SEGOK

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KOWANG-NI

* Army Superior Unit Award for 1994

* French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I for AISNE-MARNE

* French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COLMAR

* French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE

* Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA

Company A additionally entitled to:

Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ