2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment

2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Flag of the United States, 1896–1908
Active	7 May 1898 – 7 August 1899
Country	United States
Allegiance	Oregon
Branch	United States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	50 officers and 970 enlisted
Engagements	Capture of Guam, Battle of Manila (1898), Second Battle of Caloocan
Disbanded	7 August 1899

The 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a military regiment recruited in the U.S. state of Oregon during the Spanish–American War. As the first foreign war in U.S. history, it was the first time members of the Oregon National Guard had fought on foreign soil. The regiment also served with distinction in the Philippine–American War. At full strength, it was composed of 50 officers and 970 enlisted men. The regiment's last company was mustered out of service in August 1899.

The regiment was formed after the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor in Cuba on 15 February 1898. Cuba was under Spanish rule at the time and the United States became involved in the Cuban War of Independence when the U.S. Congress declared war on Spain on 21 April 1898, beginning the Spanish–American War. On 25 April 1898, President William McKinley asked Oregon for a regiment of infantry, preferably recruited from the existing National Guard. Oregon's was considered one of the nation's better equipped and trained guards.

The regiment was organized and mustered by 8 May at Camp McKinley on the racetrack grounds at Irving Park in Portland, and named the 2nd as the 1st had been organized in 1864 to guard trade routes and escort immigrant wagon trains. After a few days training under Colonel Owen Summers, it departed for the Presidio of San Francisco. On 25 May, the regiment at San Francisco en route for the Philippines.