Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company A, 10th Infantry

Organized in June 1855 at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania

Consolidated 10 June 1869 with Company A, 26th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 10th Infantry

(10th Infantry assigned 5 July 1918 to the 14th Division; relieved in February 1919 from assignment to the 14th Division; assigned 24 March 1923 to the 5th Division [later redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division])

Inactivated 31 October 1929 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Activated 1 October 1933 at Fort Hayes, Ohio

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 1 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated or organized from existing units)

Inactivated 25 April 1961 at Fort Ord, California

Redesignated 3 February 1962 as the 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado

Assigned 19 February 1962 to the 5th Infantry Division

Relieved 15 December 1970 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division

Inactivated 16 June 1989 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division

Headquarters transferred 15 April 1996 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 2d Battalion, 17th Infantry

Organized in July 1862 at Fort Preble, Maine

Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1866 as Company A, 26th Infantry

Consolidated 10 June 1869 with Company A, 10th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 10th Infantry

1st Battalion
10th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Civil War: Peninsula; Manassas; Antietam; * Fredericksburg; * Chancellorsville; * Gettysburg; * Wilderness; * Spotsylvania; * Cold Harbor; * Petersburg; * New Mexico 1862; Virginia 1862; * Virginia 1863

Indian Wars: * Comanches; Apaches; * New Mexico 1860; * New Mexico 1861

War with Spain: * Santiago; Philippine Insurrection; * Mindanao

World War II: * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

Decorations

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