3d Battalion
10th Infantry
Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 April 1997
3d Battalion
10th Infantry Lineage
Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company C, 10th Infantry
Organized in June 1855 at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Consolidated 25 July 1869 with Company C, 26th Infantry (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit designated as Company C, 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Redesignated 19 March 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 10th Infantry, withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 83d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battle Group activated 20 March 1959 with Headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio (Headquarters and Headquarters Company concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 331st Infantry [see ANNEX 2], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 10th Infantry)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 3d Battalion, 10th Infantry
Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Cleveland, Ohio
Withdrawn 10 May 1967 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 83d Infantry Division and assigned to the 5th Infantry Division
Activated 26 May 1967 at Fort Carson, Colorado
Inactivated 15 December 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado
Activated 21 November 1976 at Fort Polk, Louisiana
Inactivated 1 August 1984 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division
Headquarters transferred 4 June 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
ANNEX 1
Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company C, 2d Battalion, 17th Infantry
Organized in April 1863 at Fort Preble, Maine
Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1866 as Company C, 26th Infantry
Consolidated 25 July 1869 with Company C, 10th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company C, 10th Infantry
ANNEX 2
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 331st Infantry, an element of the 83d Division
Organized 30 August 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Demobilized 9 February 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 331st Infantry, an element of the 83d Division (later redesignated as the 83d Infantry Division)
Organized in November 1921 at Cleveland, Ohio
Ordered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Atterbury, Indiana
Inactivated 30 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Activated 26 December 1946 at Columbus, Ohio
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Consolidated 20 March 1959 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 10th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 10th Infantry
3d 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 I:* 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