Constituted April 27, 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3^rd Battalion, 2^nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, and organized at Fort Jay, New York, as Captain James Stille's Battery, 3^rd Battalion, 2^nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers

Redesignated April 1, 1802 as Captain James Stille's Battery, Regiment of Artillerists.

Redesignated June 9, 1805 as Captain John Fergus's Battery, Regiment of Artillerists.

Redesignated June 30, 1808 as Captain William Wilson's Battery, Regiment of Artillerists.

Redesignated June 3, 1809 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Battery, Regiment of Artillerists.

Redesignated January 11, 1812 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Battery, Corps of Artillery.

Redesignated May 17, 1815 as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Battery, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division.

Redesignated August 21, 1816 as Battery C, 3^rd Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division.

Redesignated June 1, 1821 as Light Battery B, 4^th Regiment of Artillery.

Reorganized and redesignated February 13, 1901 as the 7^th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps.

Reorganized and redesignated June 11, 1907 as Battery D, 6^th Field Artillery.

(6^th Field Artillery assigned June 8, 1917 to the 1^st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1^st Division]; relieved October 16, 1939 from assignment to the 1^st Division; assigned June 22, 1940 to the 8^th Division; relieved July 20, 1940 from assignment to the 8^th Division).

Inactivated August 1, 1940 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland.

Absorbed January 4, 1941 by Battery A, 6^th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (Battery A, 6^th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated January 4, 1941 as Battery A, 6^th Field Artillery Battalion; [6^th Field Artillery Battalion assigned August 8, 1942 to the 37^th Infantry Division]; inactivated December 13, 1945 at Camp Anza, California; redesignated July 24, 1946 as Battery A, 6^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 37^th Infantry Division; activated August 1, 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma).

Former Battery D, 6^th Field Artillery, reconstituted February 15, 1957 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1^st Howitzer Battalion, 6^th Artillery, assigned to the 1^st Armored Division, and activated at Fort Polk, Louisiana (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated).

Redesignated February 3, 1962 as the 1^st Battalion, 6^th Artillery (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1^st Battalion, 6^th Artillery, concurrently consolidated with Battery D, 6^th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion [organized in 1898], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1^st Battalion, 6^th Artillery).

Relieved May 5, 1971 from assignment to the 1^st Armored Division and assigned to the 1^st Cavalry Division.

Redesignated (less former Battery D, 6^th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion) September 1, 1971 as the 1^st Battalion, 6^th Field Artillery (former Battery D, 6^th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 1^st Battalion, 6^th Air Defense Artillery - hereafter separate lineage).

1^st Battalion, 6^th Field Artillery, relieved June 21, 1975 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division.

Inactivated October 1, 1983 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Assigned February 16, 1996 to the 1^st Infantry Division and activated in Germany.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

Indian Wars
*Creeks
*Seminoles
*Modocs
*Bannocks
*Utah 1860

Mexican War
*Buena Vista

Civil War
*Peninsula
*Manassas
*Antietam
*Fredericksburg
*Chancellorsville
*Gettysburg
*Wilderness
*Spotsylvania
*Cold Harbor
*Petersburg
*Maryland 1863
*Virginia 1863

War with Spain
*Santiago
*Puerto Rico

Mexican Expedition
  Mexico 1916-1917

World War I
*Montdidier-Noyon
*Aisne-Marne
*St. Mihiel
*Meuse-Argonne
*Lorraine 1917
*Lorraine 1918
*Picardy 1918

World War II
*Northern Solomons
*Luzon (with arrowhead)

DECORATIONS

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE

*French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945