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9th Infantry(454 total words in this text)(1850 Reads)  Organized 26 March 1855 at Fort Monroe, Virginia Consolidated in June 1869 with the 27th Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 9th Infantry Assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division) Relieved 20 June 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 29 April 1983 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System ANNEX Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 18th Infantry Organized in October 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as the 27th Infantry 9th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Civil War: Murfreesborough; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Atlanta; Kentucky 1862; Mississippi 1862; Tennessee 1863; Georgia 1864 Indian Wars: Little Big Horn; Washington 1856; Washington 1858; Wyoming 1866; Wyoming 1867 War with Spain: Santiago China Relief Expedition: Tientsin; Yang-tsun; Peking Philippine Insurrection: Malolos; San Isidro; Zapote River; Tarlac; Luzon 1899; Luzon 1900; Luzon 1901 World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918 World War II: Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; 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 Vietnam: 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; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII Armed Forces Expeditions: Panama Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BREST, FRANCE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SIEGFRIED LINE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for HWACHON RESERVOIR Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for CHATEAU THIERRY French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG Belgian Fourragere 1940 Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ELSENBORN CREST Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
