2/104 Bn - 88th Brigade New York Guard

HISTORY: The 104^th Regiment descends from Battery K, 1st Artillery, New York National Guard, activated in the City of New York on 3 April 1867. This unit was formed by Civil War veterans of the former Company K, 9th Militia, N.Y.N.G., which had entered Federal Service as the 6th New York Battery and had fought as a horse artillery unit in the Seven Days and at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (with the 2nd Cavalry Division) until discharged on 8 July 1865, after four years and some days in Federal service.

The new Battery K passed through a number of transformations, which may usefully be summarized in a table:

Date	Action
10 Dec 1869	Redesignated Btty K, Arty, N.Y.N.G.
1 Jun 1882	Redesignated 1st Btty, 1st Dn
23 Jan 1908	Redesignated 1st Btty, 1st Bn, Fld Arty
30 Aug 1911	Redesignated 2nd Bn, Fld Arty
28 May 1912	Redesignated 2nd Bn, 1st Fld Arty Rgt (the 1st Battalion was in Binghamton)
5 Jul 1916	Activated for Federal service, Mexican Border
15 Nov 1916	Returned to state control
9 Jul 1917	Activated for Federal service, World War I
5 Aug 1917	Drafted into Federal service
1 Oct 1917	Redesignated 104th Fld Arty, 27th Dn, and saw extensive service in France
3 Apr 1919	Demobilized, shortly reactivated in the N.Y.N.G.
15 Oct 1940	Activated for Federal service, World War II
1 Sep 1942	Reorganized, 1st Bn became the 249th Fld Arty Bn, 27th Dn, serving in the Pacific 2nd Bn became the 104th Fld Arty Bn, 27th Dn, serving in the Pacific31 Dec 1945 Inactivated
24 Jul 1947	Reactivated as 104th Fld Arty Bn, 42nd Dn, N.Y.N.G.
16 Mar 1959	Reorganized as the 104th Fld Arty Rgt

While the regiment was in Federal service during World War I, it was replaced by the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, N.Y.G., which was absorbed into the 104^th FA in 1919. During World War II its place in the state militia was taken by the 4th Regiment, N.Y.G. The regiment carries World War I honors for Lorraine, 1918, and the Meuse-Argonne. In World War II it earned battle honors for Makin, Saipan, and Okinawa.

When the New York Guard was reorganized in the early 1990s, the unit based in Jamaica was redesignated as the 2^nd Battalion, 104^th Regiment, New York Guard.