44th Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 44th Infantry Regiment belongs to an earlier generation of Army expansion and was one of the temporary regiments raised for the War of 1812. It did not survive as a permanent independent regiment into the modern Army, because postwar reductions consolidated and redesignated many of the wartime formations.
Its historical importance lies in that reorganization process. Elements of the 44th were folded into later permanent regiments, helping create the lineages that continued in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Regular Army.
The 44th Infantry is therefore best remembered not as a modern active regiment, but as one of the building blocks from which the post-1815 Regular Army was constructed.
Battalion Page
A dedicated battalion subpage now collects the regiment's known battalion icons and short sketches for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions. Open the 44th Infantry Regiment Battalions page.