146th Field Artillery Regiment

146th Field Artillery Regiment
Coat of arms
Active	1886
Country	United States
Branch	Washington Army National Guard
Type	Field artillery
Motto(s)	Action Front

The 146th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the Army National Guard first Constituted in 1886 as the 1st, and 2nd Regiments of Infantry.

Organized 9 March 1886 and 7 April 1887 from existing companies in the Washington Territorial Militia as the 1st (west of the Cascade Mountains) and 2d (east of the Cascade Mountains) Regiments of Infantry

(Washington Territorial Militia redesignated 28 January 1888 as the Washington National Guard)

2d Infantry Regiment reorganized and redesignated 23 July 1895 as the 1st Infantry Battalion

1st Infantry Regiment reorganized and redesignated in 1897 as the 2d Infantry Battalion

Ten companies of the 1st and 2d Infantry Battalions mustered into federal service 6–13 May 1898 at Tacoma as elements of the 1st Regiment, Washington Volunteer Infantry and mustered out of federal service 1 November 1899 at San Francisco, California; two companies of the 1st and 2d Infantry Battalions mustered into federal service 2–15 July 1898 at Tacoma as elements of the Independent Battalion, Washington Volunteer Infantry, and mustered out of federal service 28 October 1898 at Vancouver Barracks, Washington

Elements of the former 1st and 2d Infantry Battalions consolidated 9 November 1899 with the 1st and 2d Infantry Regiments (organized in 1898 in the Washington National Guard) and consolidated unit reorganized and designated as the 1st Infantry Regiment

Redesignated 15 May 1903 as the 2d Infantry Regiment

Mustered into federal service 28 June 1916 at Camp Elmer M. Brown, Washington; mustered out of federal service 8 October 1916 at American Lake

Drafted into federal service 5 August 1917

Consolidated 19 September – 20 October 1917 with elements of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (District of Columbia National Guard) to form the 161st Infantry, and assigned to the 41st Infantry Division (United States)

Demobilized 1–8 March 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey, and Camp Dodge, Iowa

Former 2d Infantry Regiment reorganized 1 January 1921 in the Washington National Guard as the 161st Infantry Regiment (United States), with headquarters at Spokane, and assigned to the 41st Division

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