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The 28th Infantry Division ("Keystone") [1] is a unit of the United States Army National Guard, and is the oldest division-sized unit in the Army. [2] Some of the units of the division can trace their lineage to Benjamin Franklin 's battalion, The Pennsylvania Associators (1747–1777). [ 3 ]
28th Infantry Regiment was constituted in the Regular Army on 2 February 1901 as an expansion unit for service in the Philippines as follows: 1st Battalion constituted in the Regular Army as Company A, 28th Infantry Regiment. 2nd Battalion constituted in the Regular Army as Company B, 28th Infantry Regiment.
United States Army: Years of service: 1909–1946: Rank: Major general: Service number: 0-2608: Unit: Infantry Branch: Commands: 12th Infantry Regiment 57th Infantry Regiment 28th Infantry Division Joint Brazil-US. Defense Commission: Battles / wars: Pancho Villa Expedition World War I World War II: Awards: Legion of Merit Order of Abdon ...
After serving briefly under Gen. Benjamin Butler in the Carolinas and with the 9th Corps during the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first campaign into the North, the 28th Massachusetts was assigned to the II Corps as the fourth regiment of the famed Irish Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher.
William Henry Hay was born in Drifton, Florida, on July 16, 1860. [1] [2] His father, Turner Hay, was an Army veteran of the Seminole Wars, and served in Harney's Dragoons.. Turner Hay also served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and took part in the battles at Olustee and Natural Bri
The 28th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army, first constituted in 1918 in the National Army (USA). Lineage [ edit ]
The 28th Cavalry Regiment (Horse) (Colored) was a short-lived African American unit of the United States Army. The 28th Cavalry was the last horse-mounted cavalry regiment formed by the U.S. Army. The regiment was formed as part of the 2nd Cavalry Division in 1943 and inactivated in North Africa in 1944 without seeing combat. [1]
28th Signal Battalion is a battalion of the US Army formed on 12 September 1908 in Pennsylvania as a National Guard unit at Pittsburgh as Company A, Signal Corps. It served alongside the regular army under Federal control several times, most notably during World War I , World War II , and the Cold War from 1950.