Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 March 2017
1st Battalion, 3d Infantry Regiment
(The Old Guard)
- Constituted 3 June 1784 in the Regular Army as a company of the First American Regiment
- Organized by September 1784 in Pennsylvania or New Jersey
- Redesignated 29 September 1789 as a company of the Regiment of Infantry
- Redesignated 3 March 1791 as a company of the 1st Infantry
- Redesignated in 1792 as a company of the Infantry of the 1st Sub-Legion
- Redesignated 31 October 1796 as a company of the 1st Infantry
- Consolidated May-October 1815 with a company of the 5th Infantry (constituted 12 April 1808), a company of the 17th Infantry (constituted 11 January 1812), a company of the 19th Infantry (constituted 26 June 1812), and a company of the 28th Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 3d Infantry
- Designated 22 May 1816 as Company A, 3d Infantry
- Consolidated 9 September 1869 with part of Company C, 37th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 3d Infantry
- (3d Infantry assigned 24 March 1923 to the 7th Division; relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; relieved
1 October 1933 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; relieved 10 May 1941 from assignment to the 6th Division) - Inactivated 1 June 1941 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Activated 14 February 1942 in Newfoundland
- Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany
- Activated 6 April 1948 at Fort Myer, Virginia
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 3d Infantry (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 3d Infantry
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 3d Infantry Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company C, 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry
- Organized 19 December 1865 at Newport Barracks, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1866 as Company C, 37th Infantry
- Consolidated 9 September 1869 with Company A and Company H, 3d Infantry, and consolidated units designated as Company A and Company H, 3d Infantry (Company H, 3d Infantry–hereafter separate lineage)
Campaign Participation Credit
- War of 1812
- Canada
- Chippewa
- Lundy’s Lane
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- Contreras
- Churubusco
- Chapultepec
- Civil War
- Bull Run
- Peninsula
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Appomattox
- Texas 1861
- Florida 1861
- Florida 1862
- Virginia 1863
- Indian Wars
- Miami
- Seminoles
- Comanches
- New Mexico 1856
- New Mexico 1857
- New Mexico 1858
- New Mexico 1860
- Montana 1887
- War with Spain
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Malolos
- San Isidro
- Luzon 1899
- Luzon 1900
- Jolo 1911
- World War II
- American Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
- Northern France
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered WASHINGTON, D.C., 1969-1973
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1984-1985
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1993
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2004-2005
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2011-2013
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History