DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

4th BATTALION, 12th INFANTRY

Shoulder patch 199th Infantry Brigade (Lt.) (Sep.)

Unit Crest

The field is blue for infantry. This regiment took part in the Civil War; its great achievement was its first engagement at Gaines' Mill Virginia, on 27 and 28 June 1862, where its losses were almost 50 percent. This is shown by the moline crosses which represent the iron fastening of a millstone and recall the crushing losses sustained. The wigwam stands for the Indian Campaigns in which the regiment took part. The chief is for the War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection, yellow and red being the Spanish colors, red and blue the Katipunan colors; the embattled partition line is for the capture of the block-house at El Caney, Cuba, and the sea lion is from the arms of the Philippine Islands.

Motto:

Ducti Amore Parriae ( Having Been Led by Love of Country )

LINAGE

• 1861.....Constituted 3 May as Company D and E, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry, Regular Army; organized at Fort Hamilton, NY
• 1866.....Reorganized and redisignated 7 December as Company D and E, 12th Infantry
• 1917..... assigned 17 December to the 8th Division
• 1927.....Relieved 15 August from the 8th Division and reassigned to the 4th Division.
• 1933.....Relieved 1 October from the 4th Division and assigned to the 8th Division.
• 1941.....Relieved 10 October from assignment to the 8th Division and reassigned to the 4th Division.
• 1946.....Inactivated 27 February at Camp Butler, NC.
• 1947.....Activated 17 July at Fort Ord, CA.
• 1957.....Relieved 1 April from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under CARS Inactivated at Fort Lewis, WA and relieved from assignment to 4th Infantry Division; Redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th and 5th Battle Group, 12th Infantry.
• 1966.....Redesignated 23 March as Headqourters and Headquarters Company, 4th and 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade; activated 1 June at Fort Benning, GA.
• 1970.....Inactivated 15 October at Fort Benning, GA

UNIT HISTORY CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION:

• 4th Battalion 12th Infantry

Civil War:

• Peninsula..............Manassa..............Antietam...............Fredricksburg

• Chancellorsville....Gettysburg...........Wilderness...........Spotsylvania

• Cold Harbor..........Petersburg...........Virginia 1862.........Virginia 1863

IndianWars:

• Modocs.................Bannocks

• Pine Ridge.............Arizona 1881

War With Spain:

• Santiago

Philippine Insurrection:

• Malolos.................Tarlc

• Luzon 1899

World War II:

• Normandy...................Northern France.......Rhineland

• Ardennes-Alsace........................................Central Europe

Vietnam:

• Counteroffensive....................Phase II.......... Phase III

• Tet 1968 Counteroffensive

• Counteroffensive...............Phase IV.........Phase V............Phase VI

• Tet 1969 Counteroffensive

• Summer-Fall 1969...................Winter-Spring 1970

• Sanctuary

• Counteroffensive.......Phase VII

DECORATIONS

4th Battalion 12th Infantry

• Presidential Unit Citation (Army ), Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG (12th Infantry cited)

• Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES (12th Infantry cited)

• Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM ( 12th Infantry cited )

• Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SAIGON-LONG BINH (4th Battalion, 12th Infantry cited )

• Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968 (4th Battalion 12th Infantry cited )

• Company D additionally entitled to : Presidential Unit Citation ( Army ), Streamer embroidered SAIGON ( company D 4th Battalion 12th Infantry cited )