The 29th Infantry Division


Lineage and Honors.

Constituted 18 July 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 29th Division (to be organized with troops from Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Delaware, and New Jersey)

Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Demobilized 30 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reorganized and Federally recognized 31 July 1923 at Washington, D. C.

Inducted into Federal service 3 February 1941 at Washington, D. C.

Reorganized and redesignated 12 March 1942 as Headquarters, 29th Infantry Division

Inactivated 17 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Reorganized and Federally recognized in part 23 October 1946 at Norfolk, Virginia (located changed 22 March 1963 to Staunton, Virginia), and in part 14 January 1947 at Baltimore, Maryland

Maryland part reorganized and redesignated 21 January 1968 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 28th Infantry Division; Virginia part disbanded 1 February 1968 at Staunton

Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 28th Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1971 as Headquarters, 58th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1975 as Headquarters, 58th Infantry Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 28th Infantry Division

Location changed 1 October 1981 to Pikesville, Maryland

Consolidated 30 September 1985 with Virginia part of Headquarters, 29th Infantry Division (concurrently reconstituted in the Virginia National Guard), and consolidated unit reorganized at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Infantry Division

HOME STATION: Fort Belvoir, Virginia (less detachment at Baltimore, Maryland)