14th Infantry Regiment (United States) - Lineage & Honors - 14th Infantry Regiment

14th Infantry Regiment

  • Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry
  • Organized 1 July 1861 at Fort Trumbull, Connecticut
  • Reorganized and redesignated 30 April 1862 as the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as the 14th Infantry
  • Consolidated 26 July 1869 with the 45th Infantry, Veteran Reserve Corps (constituted 21 September 1866), and consolidated unit designated as the 14th Infantry
  • Assigned 27 July 1918 to the 19th Division
  • Relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 19th Division
  • Assigned 10 July 1943 to the 71st Light Division (later redesignated as the 71st Infantry Division)
  • Relieved 1 May 1946 from assignment to the 71st Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 1 September 1946 in Germany
  • Activated 1 October 1948 at Camp Carson, Colorado
  • Assigned 1 August 1951 to the 25th Infantry Division
  • Relieved 1 February 1957 from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
  • Withdrawn 1 March 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

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
  • Bannocks
  • Arizona 1866
  • Wyoming 1874

Spanish-American War

  • Manila

China Relief Expedition

  • Yang-tsun
  • Peking

Philippine Insurrection

  • Manila
  • Laguna de Bay
  • Zapote River
  • Cavite
  • Luzon 1899

World War II

  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe

Korean War

  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953

Vietnam

  • Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase II
  • Counteroffensive, Phase III
  • Tet Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase IV
  • Counteroffensive, Phase V
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VI
  • Tet 69/Counteroffensive
  • Summer-Fall 1969
  • Winter-Spring 1970
  • Sanctuary Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VII
  • Consolidation I
  • Consolidation II
  • Cease-Fire

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered CHU LAI
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered MOGADISHU
  • Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MUNSAN-NI

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