Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 April 2010
1st BATTALION, 23d INFANTRY REGIMENT
Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry
Organized 8 July 1861 at Fort Trumbull, Connecticut
Redesignated 30 April 1862 as Company A, 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 23d Infantry
(23d Infantry assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division])
Reorganized and redesignated 20 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 23d Infantry, and remained assigned to the 2d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Relieved 16 December 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 23d Infantry, and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division
Inactivated 16 December 1986 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington
Relieved 27 July 2005 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 23d Infantry Regiment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
Civil War
*Peninsula
*Manassas
*Antietam
*Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
*Virginia 1862
Virginia 1863
Indian Wars
Little Big Horn
Arizona 1866
*Idaho 1868
War with Spain
Manila
Philippine Insurrection
Manila
*Malolos
*Mindanao
Jolo
Jolo 1903
World War I
*Aisne
*Aisne-Marne
*St. Mihiel
*Meuse-Argonne
*Ile de France 1918
*Lorraine 1918
World War II
*Normandy
*Northern France
*Rhineland
*Ardennes-Alsace
*Central Europe
Korean War
*UN Defensive
*UN Offensive
*CCF Intervention
*First UN Counteroffensive
*CCF Spring Offensive
*UN Summer-Fall Offensive
*Second Korean Winter
*Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
*Third Korean Winter
*Korea, Summer 1953
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BREST, FRANCE
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered WIRTZFELD, BELGIUM
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered KRINKELTER WALD, BELGIUM
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ST. VITH
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered TWIN TUNNELS
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CHIPYONG-NI
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAQUBAH, IRAQ
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999-2000
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2002-2003
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered CHATEAU THIERRY
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Elsenborn Crest
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History