1st Battalion
11th Infantry Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 December 2008
1st Battalion
11th Infantry Regiment Lineage
Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 2d Battalion, 15th Infantry
Organized 6 May 1862 at Newport Barracks, Kentucky
Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1866 as Company A, 24th Infantry
Consolidated 25 April 1869 with Company A, 29th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 11th
Infantry
(11th Infantry assigned 17 November 1917 to the 5th Division [later redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division])
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
Inactivated 1 June 1957 at Fort Ord, California
Redesignated 4 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 11th Infantry, and relieved from assignment
to the 5th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battle Group assigned 17 March 1958 to the 2d Infantry Division
Activated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Reorganized and redesignated 19 February 1962 as the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the
2d Infantry Division and assigned to the 5th Infantry Division
Relieved 6 August 1971 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division
Inactivated 15 January 1984 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
Headquarters transferred 14 August 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Benning,
Georgia
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment
ANNEX
Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 3d Battalion, 11th Infantry
Organized 20 August 1863 at Fort Independence, Massachusetts
Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1866 as Company A, 29th Infantry
Consolidated 25 April 1869 with Company A, 24th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 11th Infantry
1st Battalion
11th Infantry Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Civil War: Shiloh; Murfreesborough; Chickamauga; *Chattanooga; *Atlanta; Kentucky 1862; Mississippi 1862; Tennessee 1863; Georgia 1864
Indian Wars: *Comanches
War with Spain: *Puerto Rico
Philippine Insurrection: Mindanao
World War I: *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Alsace 1918; *Lorraine 1918
World War II: *Normandy; *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Vietnam: *Counteroffensive, Phase V; *Counteroffensive, Phase VI; *Tet 69/Counteroffensive; *Summer-Fall 1969; *Winter-Spring 1970; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII; *Consolidation I
Decorations
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999-2000
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971