Organized 1 July 1838 as a detachment of recruits at Detroit, Michigan

Designated 5 July 1838 as Company A, 8th Infantry (concurrently constituted in the Regular Army)

Consolidated in May 1869 with Company A, 33d Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 8th Infantry

(8th Infantry assigned 17 December 1917 to the 8th Division; relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 4th Division [later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division])

Inactivated 25 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 8th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 4th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry

Inactivated 10 April 1970 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Activated 13 September 1972 at Fort Carson, Colorado

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 3d Battalion, 15th Infantry

Organized by March 1864 at Fort Adams, Rhode Island

Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 33d Infantry

Consolidated in May 1869 with Company A, 8th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 8th Infantry

1st Battalion
8th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Mexican War: * Palo Alto; * Resaca de la Palma; * Monterey; * Vera Cruz; * Cerro Gordo; * Churubusco; * Molino del Rey; *Chapultepec

Civil War: Peninsula; * Manassas; * Antietam; * Fredericksburg; * Chancellorsville; * Gettysburg; * Wilderness; * Atlanta; * Spotsylvania; * Cold Harbor; * Petersburg; * Texas 1861

Indian Wars: Seminoles: * Apaches; New Mexico 1858; New Mexico 1860; * Montana 1872; Arizona 1876

War with Spain: * Santiago

Philippine Insurrection: Luzon 1901

World War I: * Streamer without inscription

World War II: * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

Vietnam: * 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

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BEACHES OF NORMANDY

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PLEIKU PROVINCE

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for DAK TO DISTRICT

* Belgian Fourragere 1940

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES

* Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1966-1969

* Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969-1970

* Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1966-1969

Company A and Company C each additionally entitled to:

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KONTUM PROVINCE