The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army that has served for more than two hundred years. It was constituted on 12 April 1808 as the 6th Infantry and consolidated with 4 other regiments in 1815 to form the present unit.

The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army that has served for more than two hundred years. It was constituted on 12 April 1808 as the 6th Infantry[1] and shares with other regiments the battle honors[2] of the …

On April 6, 1945, it attacked northwest to aid in the destruction of enemy forces in the Ruhr Pocket. After completing this mission, the regiment performed security duties until May 1, when the 3rd Battalion crossed the Elbe and advanced until the end of the war.

On 18 April 1869 the 2d Infantry was consolidated with the 16th Infantry and the consolidated unit was designated as the 2d Infantry Regiment. The 2d Infantry bears 9 battle honors from the Southern Campaign through its 1869 consolidation with the 16th Infantry.

These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Finis Richardson served with the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. Add to this record.

Service in the Civil War is shown by the blue cross from the Confederate flag and the red cross pattee, the badge of the 18th Division, V Corps, in which the Regiment served during the greater part of that war.

The 2nd United States Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 88 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 58 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is referenced on a War Department marker at Antietam and honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

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In World War II, the 2nd Infantry Regiment fought as part of the 5th Infantry Division in Patton's famous Third Army, leading the way in the breakout from the beaches of...

The 2nd, known as the Troy regiment, was organized at Troy, and was mustered into the U. S. service on May 14, 1861, at Camp Willard, Troy, nearly 800 strong, for a term of two years. It left Troy on the 18th for New York, there embarked for Fortress Monroe encamped at Mill creek and participated in the battle of Big Bethel.