Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 October 2012
878th ENGINEER BATTALION
- Organized 1 January 1968 from existing units in the Georgia Army National Guard as the 878th Engineer Battalion with Headquarters at Augusta
- Ordered into active Federal service 1 April 2003 at home stations; released from active Federal service 3 August 2004 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized 1 September 2007 to consist of the Headquarters Company and the Support Company (Company A concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the Support Company) (remainder of organic elements-hereafter separate lineages)
- HOME STATION: Augusta
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Headquarters Company (Richmond Hussars, Augusta), additionally entitled to:
- Civil War (Confederate service)
- Peninsula
- Sharpsburg
- Fredericksburg
- Gettysburg
- Wilderness
- Virginia 1861
- North Carolina 1865
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Guadalcanal
- New Guinea
- Northern Solomons
- Ryukyus
DECORATIONS
None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History