5TH ARTILLERY REGIMENT

Authorised 24 February 1960

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.

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 Sigel's whole artillery was in action, and was able to hold a whole corps of Confederate troops in check.

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

Authorised 24 February 1960

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.

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 Sigel's whole artillery was in action, and was able to hold a whole corps of Confederate troops in check. 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 Hamilton's 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.

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