102nd Field Artillery Regiment

History

Lineage & Honors

Lineage

• Organized 10 July 1786 in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at Salem as the Cadet Company and assigned to the 1st Brigade, 2d Division.
• Redesignated in 1828 as the Salem Independent Cadets. While remaining in state service the Salem Independent Cadets additionally formed Company D, 14th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Salem Independent Cadets mustered into Federal service 26 May 1862 at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, as the Salem Cadets; mustered out of Federal service 11 October 1862 at Fort Warren, Massachusetts.
• Redesignated in 1866 as the Second Company of Cadets.
• Expanded in 1874 to form a battalion and redesignated as the Second Corps of Cadets.
• Converted and redesignated 24 December 1915 as the 2d Battalion, Field Artillery.
• Redesignated 26 February 1916 as the 2d Battalion, 1st Regiment of Field Artillery.
• Mustered into Federal service 18 June 1916 at Framingham
• Mustered out of Federal service 14 November 1916 at Framingham.
• Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917.
• Reorganized and redesignated 22 August 1917 as the 2d Battalion, 101st Field Artillery, an element of the 26th Division.
• Demobilized 29 April 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts.
• Reorganized and redesignated 31 March 1920 in the Massachusetts National Guard as the 2d Battalion, 102d Field Artillery.
• Redesignated 1 September 1920 as the 2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery.
• Redesignated 30 September 1921 as the 2d Battalion, 102d Field Artillery, an element of the 26th Division.
• Inducted into Federal service 16 January 1941 at Salem.
• Reorganized and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 102d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 26th Infantry Division.
• Inactivated 25 December 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 12 December 1946 at Salem.
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 102d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Howitzer Battalions, elements of the 26th Infantry Division.
• Redesignated 1 March 1972 as the 102d Field Artillery.
• Reorganized 1 April 1975 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 26th Infantry Division.
• Reorganized 1 September 1978 to consist of the 1st Battalion and Battery E, elements of the 26th Infantry Division.
• Withdrawn 1 March 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System; concurrently consolidated with the 101st Field Artillery and consolidated unit reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System as the 101st Field Artillery, to consist of the 1st Battalion.
• Consolidated 1 September 1993 with the 211th Field Artillery and consolidated unit designated as the 101st Field Artillery, to consist of the 1st Battalion and Battery E, elements of the 42d Infantry Division.
• Former 102d Field Artillery withdrawn 1 October 1996 and reorganized as a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Battalion.

  Campaign Participation Credit

• Civil War: Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Appomattox; Virginia 1861; Virginia 1862; Virginia 1863
• World War I: Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918
• World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

  Decorations

• Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes