The 141st Infantry Regiment of the United States Army is also known as the “1st Texas Infantry” because its history traces back to the days of the Texas Revolution and before.
Its ancestral unit was the “Washington Guards,” organized at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 7, 1836–the day after the Alamo fell–and their insignia proudly pays homage to their lineage.
On the regimental guidon staff, the 141st Infantry is authorized to wear three streamers–a blue one with a lone star and the words “Republic of Texas,” a white streamer which commemorates “The Alamo”, and a red streamer with the words “San Jacinto” in blue.
Even before the Texas Revolution, a Texas Regiment was constituted as part of the Mexican National Militia on 18 February 1823 and organized 22 June 1824, headquartered at San Felipe de Austin. After the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States in 1845, the Regiment was reorganized as part of the U.S. Army. When Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, the Texas Infantry Regiment remained in state service while Texas was part of the Confederacy, disbanded at the end of the Civil War, and was then reorganized and redesignated 24 June 1874 as a regiment of the Reserve Militia and was finally reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System, headquartered in San Antonio.
Members of the 141st Infantry Regiment have fought in the Texas Revolution at the Alamo and at San Jacinto, and in the Mexican War.
In the Civil War they fought at
- Shiloh
- Peninsula
- Second Manassas
- Sharpsburg
- Fredericksburg
- Gettysburg
- Vicksburg
- Chickamauga
- Chattanooga
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Appomattox
- Texas 1861
- Virginia 1861
- Mississippi 1862
- New Mexico 1862
- Texas 1862
- Virginia 1862
- Mississippi 1863
- Tennessee 1863
- Texas 1863
- Louisiana 1864
- Texas 1864
- Texas 1865
In World War I they fought in the Meuse-Argonne, and in World War II they fought at Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, in Southern France, the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and in Central Europe.
For the members of the 141st Infantry Regiment, “a glorious past inspires a glorious future.”
