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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 |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |