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The 7th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army. In its 200-year history it has participated in 12 wars, been awarded 78 campaign streamers, and 14 unit decorations. [ 3 ] The regiment has served in more campaigns than any other infantry unit in the United States Army.
Colonel Matthew Arbuckle commanded the 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) from Fort Smith, Arkansas. He moved some of his troops to establish Cantonment Gibson on 21 April 1824 on the Grand River (Oklahoma) just above its confluence with the Arkansas River. This was part of a series of forts which the United States established to protect its ...
In the summer of 1878, the 7th Infantry was moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Fort Shaw became the headquarters of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel John R. Brooke. [50] Brooke was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on March 20, 1879, and assigned to the 13th Infantry Regiment (then in the Dakotas).
The 7th Infantry Division is a non-deployable administrative headquarters of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.It is charged with maintaining the capability of two Stryker infantry brigade combat teams, a combat aviation brigade, and a Division Artillery Unit, as well as preparing units for several U.S. Army Pacific yearly exercises.
The 7th Regiment became the 107th Infantry during World War I. [127] A fourth-story room housing the city's police band was destroyed by fire in 1922. [ 238 ] Several tablets were dedicated at the armory in the 1920s, commemorating 7th Regiment troops who had died in World War I .
George Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, on August 24, 1832. [1] His father, an army surgeon in the 7th Infantry Regiment, [2] [3] was John Walker Baylor, eldest son of Major Walker Baylor, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, whose wife was Jane, née Bledsoe, a sister of Jesse Bledsoe, of Kentucky. [1]
On 1 July 1940, the 7th Infantry Division was reactivated at Camp Ord, California [1] Under the command of Major General Joseph W. Stilwell. [4] The Headquarters element, 13th and 14th Brigades did not reactivate, however, and the division was instead centered around three infantry regiments; the 17th Infantry Regiment, [7] the 32nd Infantry Regiment, [7] and the 53rd Infantry Regiment. [4]
The 7th Infantry Regiment: Combat in an Age of Terror: The Korean War Through the Present, New York: Forge (2008) ISBN 0765303051 OCLC 191758472 American Courage, American Carnage: 7th Infantry Chronicles: The 7th Infantry Regiment’s Combat Experience, 1812 Through World War II , New York: Forge (2009) ISBN 0765320126 OCLC 251190743