Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 October 2013
2d BATTALION,
7th INFANTRY REGIMENT
(COTTONBALERS)
- Constituted 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company of the 8th Infantry
- Organized in 1812 in Tennessee, Georgia, or the adjacent territories
- Consolidated May-October 1815 with a company of the 24th Infantry (constituted 26 June 1812) and a company of the 39th Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 7th Infantry
- Designated 21 August 1816 as Company B, 7th Infantry
- Consolidated 4 June 1869 with Company B, 36th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 7th Infantry
- (7th Infantry assigned 21 November 1917 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division])
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 7th Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division, and assigned to the 10th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Battle Group inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Redesignated 18 April 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 7th Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Activated 20 June 1963 in Germany
- Inactivated 1 May 1966 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 December 1987 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
- Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 3d Battalion, 18th Infantry
- Organized in December 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio
- Reorganized and redesignated 26 December 1866 as Company B, 36th Infantry
- Consolidated 4 June 1869 with Company B, 7th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 7th Infantry
Campaign Participation Credit
- War of 1812
- *Canada
- New Orleans
- *Florida 1814
- Louisiana 1815
- Mexican War
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- *Contreras
- *Churubusco
- *Molino del Rey
- *Chapultepec
- *Texas 1846
- Civil War
- *Fredericksburg
- *Murfreesborough
- *Chancellorsville
- *Gettysburg
- Chickamauga
- Chattanooga
- Atlanta
- *New Mexico 1861
- New Mexico 1862
- *Kentucky 1862
- *Mississippi 1862
- *Tennessee 1862
- Tennessee 1863
- Georgia 1864
- Indian Wars
- *Creeks
- *Seminoles
- *Little Big Horn
- Nez Perces
- *Utes
- Pine Ridge
- New Mexico 1860
- Wyoming 1866
- Montana 1872
- War with Spain
- *Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Samar 1901
- Samar 1902
- World War I
- *Aisne
- *Champagne-Marne
- *Aisne-Marne
- *St. Mihiel
- *Meuse-Argonne
- *Champagne 1918
- *Ile de France 1918
- World War II
- *Algeria-French Morocco
- (with arrowhead)
- *Tunisia
- *Sicily
- (with arrowhead)
- *Naples-Foggia
- *Anzio (with arrowhead)
- *Rome-Arno
- *Southern France
- (with arrowhead)
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- Korean War
- *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
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- *Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Soverignty
- *New Dawn
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CHOKSONG
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SEGOK
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOWANG-NI
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2010
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
- *French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
- *Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA
- Company A and Company C each additionally entitled to:
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
- Company B additionally entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ SEP 2005-SEP 2006
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History