5TH ARTILLERY REGIMENT
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Distinctive Unit Insignia

Distinctive Unit Insignia

Description
A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a rounded shield blazoned:  Gules, between five arrows four point down in fess paleways and one in base fessways the latter broken Sable fimbriated Or the Liberty Bell of the last charged with the Lorraine Cross Azure; on a chief embattled of the third two cannons fesswise of the second.  Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Gold scroll inscribed FAITHFUL AND TRUE in Black letter.

Symbolism
Scarlet and yellow are the colors used for Artillery.  The five arrows allude to the Indian Wars:  the broken arrow commemorates the battle near Vincennes, Indiana on 4 November 1791 in which all officers and two thirds of the men were killed.  The Liberty Bell is symbolic of the Revolutionary War and the Lorrain Cross refers to World War I.  The embattled partition lines symbolize the ramparts of Chapultepec.  The pair of cannons representing the Civil War depicts the battle of New Market, 15 May 1864.  Captain Du Pont (later General Du Pont) commanding Battery B, deployed his guns in pairs in echelon on the road, making the enemy believe that General Sigels whole artillery was in action, and was able to hold a whole corps of Confederate troops in check.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 24 February 1960.  It was cancelled on 23 August 1971.




Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms

Blazon

Shield

Gules, between five arrows four point down in fess paleways and one in base fessways the latter broken Sable fimbriated Or the Liberty Bell of the last charged with the Lorraine Cross Azure; on a chief embattled of the third two cannons fesswise of the second.

Crest

On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, on a mount an oak tree Proper fructed of 13 acorns Or surmounted by a cannon wheel Gules grasped by two hands Proper issuant chevronwise from base.

Motto

FAITHFUL AND TRUE.

Symbolism

Shield

Scarlet and yellow are the colors used for Artillery.  The five arrows allude to the Indian Wars:  the broken arrow commemorates the battle near Vincennes, Indiana on 4 November 1791 in which all officers and two thirds of the men were killed.  The Liberty Bell is symbolic of the Revolutionary War and the Lorrain Cross refers to World War I.  The embattled partition lines symbolize the ramparts of Chapultepec.  The pair of cannons representing the Civil War depicts the battle of New Market, 15 May 1864.  Captain Du Pont (later General Du Pont) commanding Battery B, deployed his guns in pairs in echelon on the road, making the enemy believe that General Sigels whole artillery was in action, and was able to hold a whole corps of Confederate troops in check.

Crest

The tree adapted from the Crest of Alexander Hamilton alludes to the origin of the unit early in the Revolutionary War.  It was constituted 6 January 1776 and organized in March 1776, as Alexander Hamiltons Provincial Company of Artillery, Colony of New York.  The Artillery wheel grasped by two hands commemorates action during the Civil War at Spotsylvania on 4 May 1864.  Under LT Richard Metcalf Battery C charged earthworks firing its guns and then ran them up by hand to a new position, to the famous Bloody Angle and fired again and again.  The only recorded instance in the Civil War of a battery charging on a breastworks.

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 24 February 1960.  It was cancelled on 23 August 1971.





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