2d Battalion
10th Infantry
Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 April 1997
2d Battalion
10th Infantry Lineage
Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company B, 10th Infantry
Organized in June 1855 at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Consolidated 23 June 1869 with Company B, 26th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 10th Infantry
(10th Infantry assigned 5 July 1918 to the 14th Division; relieved in February 1919 from assignment to the 14th Division; assigned 24 March 1923 to the 5th Division [later redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division])
Inactivated 31 October 1929 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Activated 1 October 1933 at Fort Hayes, Ohio
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, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 10th Infantry, assigned to the 10th Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
(organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division
Activated 23 April 1960 in the Canal Zone
Reorganized and redesignated 19 February 1962 as the 2d Battalion, 10th Infantry, and assigned to the 5th Infantry Division
Relieved 15 December 1970 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division
Inactivated 21 March 1973 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
Headquarters transferred 4 June 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
ANNEX
Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 2d Battalion, 17th Infantry
Organized in October 1862 at Fort Preble, Maine
Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1866 as Company B, 26th Infantry
Consolidated 23 June 1869 with Company B, 10th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 10th Infantry
2d Battalion
10th Infantry Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Civil War: * Peninsula; Manassas; Antietam; Fredericksburg; * Chancellorsville; * Gettysburg; * Wilderness; * Spotsylvania; * Cold Harbor; * Petersburg; New Mexico 1862; Virginia 1862; * Virginia 1863
Indian Wars: Comanches; * Apaches
War with Spain: * Santiago
Philippine Insurrection: * Streamer without inscription
World War II: * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe
Decorations
* French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for MOSELLE RIVER