Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 July 2018
1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment
(The Rock of Chickamauga)
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry
- Organized 24 August 1861 at Indianapolis, Indiana
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1866 as Company A, 19th Infantry
- Consolidated 17 April 1869 with Company A, 28th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 19th Infantry
- (19th Infantry assigned 29 July 1918 to the 18th Division; relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 18th Division; assigned 17 October 1922 to the Hawaiian Division [later redesignated as the 24th Infantry Division])
- Redesignated 5 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 19th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 24th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated 1 July 1958 in Germany)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry
- Inactivated 15 April 1970 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Relieved 5 June 1972 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division, assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
- Inactivated 16 June 1986 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
- Headquarters transferred 28 August 1987 to the United States Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 2d Battalion, 19th Infantry
- Organized 31 March 1863 at Fort Wayne, Michigan
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1866 as Company A, 28th Infantry
- Consolidated 17 April 1869 with Company A, 19th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 19th Infantry
Campaign Participation Credit
- Civil War
- Shiloh
- Murfreesborough
- Chickamauga
- Chattanooga
- Atlanta
- Kentucky 1862
- Mississippi 1862
- Tennessee 1863
- Georgia 1864
- Indian Wars
- Utes
- War with Spain
- Puerto Rico
- Philippine Insurrection
- Cebu 1899
- Panay 1899
- Cebu 1900
- Panay 1900
- Bohol 1901
- Cebu 1901
- World War II
- Central Pacific
- New Guinea (with arrowhead)
- Leyte (with arrowhead)
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- Southern Philippines
- (with arrowhead)
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LEYTE
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DAVAO
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF KOREA
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered PYONGTAEK
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History