Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 June 2013
4th BATTALION,
1st FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT
- Organized in 1792 in the Regular Army near Fort Wayne, Indiana, as Captain Moses Porter's Company of Artillery of the 3d Sublegion, Legion of the United States
- Redesignated 9 May 1794 as Captain Moses Porter's Company, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
- Redesignated 27 April 1798 as Captain Moses Porter's Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Redesignated in 1800 as Captain Theophilus Elmer's Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain James Read's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated 15 November 1803 as Captain Richard W. Whiley's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated 1 December 1804 as Captain Nathaniel Leonard's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain Nathaniel Leonard’s Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Consolidated in early 1814 with Captain Alexander S. Brook's Company, 3d Regiment of Artillery (constituted 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3d Regiment of Artillery and organized as Captain James McKeon's Company, 3d Regiment of Artillery; redesignated in 1814 as Captain Alexander S. Brook's Company, 3d Regiment of Artillery) and consolidated unit designated as Captain Alexander S. Brook's Company, 3d Regiment of Artillery
- Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Alexander S. Brook's Company, Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Ethan A. Allen's Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company N, 2d Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company E, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 1st Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 May 1907 as Battery D, 1st Field Artillery
- (1st Field Artillery assigned 1 October 1933 to the 4th Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 6th Division [later redesignated as the 6th Infantry Division])
- Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Battery A, 1st Field Artillery Battalion (Battery A, 1st Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 1st Field Artillery Battalion; inactivated 25 January 1949 in Korea; activated 4 October 1950 at Fort Ord, California [1st Field Artillery Battalion relieved 3 April 1956 from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division])
- Former Battery D, 1st Field Artillery, reconstituted 15 May 1958 in the Regular Army
- Consolidated 1 September 1958 with Battery D, 74th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion (active) (organized in 1815), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Missile Battalion, 1st Artillery (organic elements constituted 12 August 1958 and activated 1 September 1958)
- Redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 4th Battalion, 1st Artillery
- Redesignated (less former Battery D, 74th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion)
1 September 1971 as the 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, and inactivated at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland (former Battery D, 74th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 4th Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery-hereafter separate lineage) - 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, assigned 16 January 1988 to the 5th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Inactivated 15 December 1992 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Armored Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
- Relieved 16 April 2007 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
- Inactivated 15 March 2008 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Activated 16 August 2009 at Fort Bliss, Texas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- War of 1812
- *Canada
- Indian Wars
- *Miami
- *Seminoles
- *Pine Ridge
- Mexican War
- *Palo Alto
- *Resaca de la Palma
- *Monterey
- *Tamaulipas 1846
- Civil War
- *Sumter
- *Peninsula
- *Manassas
- *Antietam
- *Fredericksburg
- *Chancellorsville
- *Gettysburg
- *Wilderness
- *Spotsylvania
- *Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Virginia 1862
- *Virginia 1863
- *Virginia 1864
- *West Virginia 1863
- War with Spain
- Puerto Rico
- *Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- *Malolos
- *San Isidro
- *Tarlac
- *Zapote River
- *Luzon 1899
- *Luzon 1900
- World War II
- *New Guinea (with arrowhead)
- *Luzon (with arrowhead)
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2011-2012
- *Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History