1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment
(Alexander Hamilton Battery)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 4 May 2009
1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 6 January 1776 by the colony of New York as the New York Provincial Company of Artillery, commanded by Captain Alexander Hamilton
Organized 3 February-30 March 1776 at New York, New York
Transferred 17 March 1777 to the Continental Army as Captain John Doughty's Company, Colonel John Lamb's (New York) Continental Artillery Regiment
Redesignated 10 August 1779 as the 2d Company, 2d Continental Artillery Regiment
Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1784 as Captain John Doughty's Company of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated in July 1785 as the 1st Company (commanded by Major John Doughty), Artillery, First American Regiment
Reorganized 20 October 1786 as the 1st Company (commanded by Captain James Bradford), Artillery, First American Regiment
Reorganized and redesignated 3 October 1787 as the 1st Company (commanded by Captain James Bradford), Battalion of Artillery
Consolidated in 1792 with the 2d Company, Battalion of Artillery (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Captain Mahlon Ford's Company of Artillery of the 1st Sublegion, Legion of the United States Redesignated 9 May 1794 as Captain Mahlon Ford's Company, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 27 April 1798 as Captain Mahlon Ford's Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Consolidated in 1800 with Captain James Sterrett's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (see ANNEX 2), and consolidated unit designated as Captain James Sterrett's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated in March 1801 as Captain John W. Livingston's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain John W. Livingston’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in May 1802 as Captain James Sterrett's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in 1806 as Captain Charles Wollstonecraft's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain Charles Wollstonecraft's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Charles Wollstonecraft's Company, Corps of Artillery
Consolidated 17 May 1815 with Captain Francis Newman�s Company, Corps of Artillery (see ANNEX 3), and consolidated unit designated as Captain Charles Wollstonecraft's Company, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated in late 1815 as Captain George P. Peters� Company, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 21 August 1816 as Company A, 3d Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company F, 4th Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 8th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 31 May 1907 as Battery D, 5th Field Artillery (5th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Division]; relieved in March 1921 from assignment to the 1st Division; assigned 1 January 1930 to the 1st Division [later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division])
Inactivated 1 October 1933 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Activated 1 May 1939 at Madison Barracks, New York
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery D, 5th Field Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion, 5th Artillery, an element of the 1st Infantry Division (organic elements constituted 8 February 1957 and activated 15 February 1957)
Reorganized and redesignated 20 April 1960 as the 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery
(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery, consolidated 26 August 1960 with Battery D, 5th Coast Artillery [organized in 1861], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery)
Redesignated 20 January 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 5th Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery D, 5th Coast Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (former Battery D, 5th Coast Artillery, concurrently redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery--hereafter separate lineage)
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment
ANNEX 1
Constituted 3 June 1784 in the Regular Army as the 2d Company, Artillery, First American Regiment
Organized August-September 1784 in Pennsylvania as the 2d Company (commanded by Captain Thomas Douglass), Artillery, First American Regiment
Redesignated 20 October 1785 as the 2d Company (commanded by Captain William Ferguson), Artillery, First American Regiment
Redesignated 3 October 1787 as the 2d Company (commanded by Captain William Ferguson), Battalion of Artillery
Redesignated 4 March 1791 as the 2d Company (commanded by Captain Mahlon Ford), Battalion of Artillery
ANNEX 2
Constituted 20 October 1786 in the Regular Army as a company of artillery
Organized in 1786 in Massachusetts as Captain Joseph Savage's Company of Artillery
Redesignated 3 October 1787 as the 4th Company (commanded by Captain Joseph Savage), Battalion of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated in 1792 as Captain John Pierce's Company of Artillery of the 2d Sublegion, Legion of the United States
Redesignated 9 May 1794 as Captain John Pierce's Company, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated in 1796 as Captain George Demler's Company, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 27 April 1798 as Captain George Demler�s Company, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 19 March 1799 as Captain James Sterrett's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
ANNEX 3
Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Organized in late 1798 at Fort Wolcott, Rhode Island, as Captain Amos Stoddard�s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain Amos Stoddard�s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in 1810 as Captain Francis Newman�s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain Francis Newman�s Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Francis Newman�s Company, Corps of Artillery
1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Revolutionary War: *Long Island; *Trenton; *Princeton; *Brandywine; *Germantown; *Monmouth; *Yorktown; *New Jersey 1776; *New Jersey 1777; *New Jersey 1780; *New York 1776
War of 1812: *Louisiana 1814; *Louisiana 1815
Indian Wars: *Miami; *Creeks; *Seminoles; *Little Big Horn; *Pine Ridge
Mexican War: *Vera Cruz; *Cerro Gordo; *Contreras; *Chapultepec
Civil War: *Valley; *Manassas; *Antietam; *Chancellorsville; *Gettysburg; *Virginia 1861
War with Spain: *Santiago
Philippine Insurrection: *Cavite; *Luzon 1899; *Samar 1900; *Samar 1901
World War I: *Montdidier-Noyon; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1917; *Lorraine 1918; *Picardy 1918
World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco; *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Vietnam: *Defense; *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
Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AL ANBAR PROVINCE
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered LORRAINE-PICARDY
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1968
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970
*Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1970
Battery D additionally entitled to:
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ OCT 2006 � AUG 2007