136th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Lineage

• Companies mustered into Federal service 26 June 1861.
• Reorganized 29 December 1863.
• Mustered out of Federal service 10 July 1865 at Louisville, Ky.
• Reorganized as independent companies including Governors Guard organized in 1874 at New Ulm, and Faribault guards, organized 1876;
• Consolidated in 1880 to form 2nd Battalion.
• Expanded and Redesignated 27 February 1883 as 2nd Infantry Regiment with Headquarters at New Ulm.
• Redesignated 4 May 1898 as 12th Infantry Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, and mustered into Federal service 7 May 1898 at St. Paul.
• Mustered out 5 November 1898 at New Ulm.
• Reorganized 3 March 1899 as 2nd Infantry Regiment.
• Mustered into Federal service 26 June 1916 at Fort Snelling, Minn. for Mexican Border.
• Mustered out 24 January 1917 at Fort Snelling
• Called into Federal service 14 July 1917; Drafted on 5 August 1917.
• Redesignated 136th Infantry Regiment 1 October 1917, and assigned to the 34th Division.
• Demobilized 18 February 1919 at Camp Grant.
• reconstituted and activated 1 April 1942 in the Army of the United States.
• Inactivated 5 February 1946 at Otsu, Japan, and Relieved from the 33rd Division.
• Assigned to the 47th Infantry Division 10 June 1946.
• allotted to the 21 June 1946 and consolidated with the 217th Coast Artillery Regiment.
• Reorganized with Headquarters Federally recognized 23 September 1946 at St. Cloud.
• Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at St. Cloud
• Released from active Federal service and reverted to state control 2 December 1954.

  Distinctive unit insignia

• Description

• Symbolism

• Background

Coat of arms

• Blazon
• *Shield: Azure, a bear cat rampant Argent langued Gules between in fess a five-pointed mullet and a gopher sejant Or; on a chief of the second a saltire couped of the field.
• *Crest: That for the regiments and battalions of the Minnesota Army National Guard: On a wreath of the colors, a sheaf of wheat Proper.
• *Motto: REX MONTIS.
• Symbolism
• * Shield: The consolidation of the former 217th Coast Artillery Regiment with the 136th Infantry Regiment is depicted in the design: The bear cat is from the coat of arms of the 136th Infantry Regiment, World War II; the star and gopher are from the coats of arms of the former 205th and 206th Infantry Regiments, predecessors of the 217th Coast Artillery Regiment. The chief, bearing a saltire, is incorporated in this coat of arms to symbolize the Civil War service of the original 136th Infantry Regiment. The shield is blue for Infantry.
• * Crest: The crest is that of the Minnesota Army National Guard.
• Background: The coat of arms was approved on 14 November 1951.

  Campaign streamers

• Shiloh
• Kentucky 1862
• Tennessee 1862
• Alabama 1862
• Chickmauga
• Chattanooga
• Atlanta
• North Carolina 1865

• without inscription

• New Guinea
• Luzon

  Decorations

• A Company
• F Company
• G Company
• I Company

• Service Company
• Medical Company