• Organized 18 April 1861 in the Illinois Militia at Paris as Company E, 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
• Mustered into Federal service 2 May 1861 at Springfield
• Mustered out of Federal service 1 August 1861 at Cairo; concurrently reorganized and mustered into Federal service
• Mustered out of Federal service 10-18 July 1865 at Camp Butler, Illinois
• (Illinois Militia redesignated 21 December 1875 as the Illinois State Guard; redesignated 1 July 1877 as the Illinois National Guard)
• Reorganized 29 May 1879 in the Illinois National Guard at Paris as Company C (Paris Light Infantry), 17th Infantry Battalion
• Redesignated 4 May 1882 as Company H, 8th Infantry Regiment
• Redesignated 31 December 1890 as Company H, 4th Infantry Regiment
• Mustered into Federal service 20 May 1898 at Springfield as Company H, 4th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 2 May 1899 at Atlanta, Georgia, and resumed state status as Company H, 4th Infantry
• Mustered out of state service 13 January 1903 at Paris
• Reorganized 17 June 1907 in the Illinois National Guard at Paris as Company D, 4th Infantry
• Mustered into Federal service 29 June 1916; mustered out of Federal service 15 March 1917 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois
• Mustered into Federal service 30 July 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
• Reorganized and redesignated 12 October 1917 as Company D, 130th Infantry, an element of the 33d Division
• Demobilized 29 May 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 24 May 1922 in the Illinois National Guard at Paris as Company M, 130th Infantry, an element of the 33d Division (later redesignated as the 33d Infantry Division)
• Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at Paris
• Inactivated 5 February 1946 in Japan
• (130th Infantry relieved 5 July 1946 from assignment to the 33d Infantry Division and assigned to the 44th Infantry Division)
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 9 April 1947 at Paris as Company H, 130th Infantry
• Ordered into active Federal service 15 February 1952 at Paris
• Released 10 October 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 44th Infantry Division
• (130th Infantry assigned 1 December 1954 to the 33d Infantry Division)
• Converted and redesignated 1 March 1959 as Troop B, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 106th Armor, an element of the 33d Infantry Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Troop B, 1st Squadron, 106th Cavalry, an element of the 33d Infantry Division
• Converted and redesignated 1 February 1968 as Company B, 682d Engineer Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 33d Infantry Division
• Converted and redesignated 1 October 1974 as the 1644th Transportation Company
• Redesignated 1 April 1980 as the 1544th Transportation Company
• Ordered into active Federal service 27 September 1990 at Paris; released 3 May 1991 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
• Ordered into active Federal service 7 December 2003 at Paris; released from active Federal service 3 June 2005 and reverted to state control

HOME STATION: Paris (less detachment at Danville)