1st Battalion
13th Infantry Regiment
(First at Vicksburg)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 3 May 2006
1st Battalion
13th Infantry Regiment Lineage
Organized 8 October 1861 as Company A, 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 13th Infantry
Assigned 17 December 1917 to the 8th Division
Relieved 29 March 1923 from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 9th Division
Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 5th Division
Inactivated 31 October 1929 at Fort Strong, Massachusetts
Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division
Relieved 22 June 1940 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 8th Division (later redesignated as the 8th Infantry Division)
Activated 14 July 1940 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Inactivated 18 November 1945 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Activated 17 August 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 13th Infantry (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated in Germany)
Relieved in February 1959 from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division
Relieved 25 April 1963 from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division and assigned to the 8th Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry
Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters transferred 16 November 2005 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
1st Battalion
13th Infantry Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Civil War: *Mississippi River; *Vicksburg; *Chattanooga; *Mississippi 1863; *Tennessee 1863
Indian Wars: North Dakota 1866; Montana 1868
War with Spain : *Santiago
Philippine Insurrection: *Cavite; *San Fabian; *Luzon 1899; Luzon 1900
World War II: *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Central Europe
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HURTGEN FOREST
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY
*Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG