April 27, 1798, and organized in 1798 at Fort Jay, New York. By 1809 Captain Stille's Company had become Captain. Enoch Humphrey's Company, Regiment of Artillerists, which was redesignated as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery, on January 11, 1812, and then as Captain Enoch Humphrey's Company, Corps of Artillery, on May 12, 1814. Humphrey's Company played a crucial role in the Battle of New Orleans during the climactic British assault on January 8, 1815. Humphrey's Company was positioned about seventy feet from the Mississippi River at the right terminus of Jackson's primary defense line east of the river. The devastating fire that the American artillery put down on the advancing British infantry played a decisive role in stopping the British attack. 1-6 FA is currently active, serving as an element of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. Infantry During the demobilization that occurred immediately following the war, thirteen infantry regiments were abolished, while eight new infantry regiments, numbered 1 through 8, were formed by consolidating various combinations of thirty-five of the forty-eight regiments that had existed during the war, as follows: 1st Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 44th Infantry Regiments; 2nd Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 6th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd and 32nd Infantry Regiments; 3rd Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 1st, 5th, 17th, 19th and 28th Infantry Regiments; 4th Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 14th, 18th, 20th, 36th and 38th Infantry Regiments; 5th Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 4th, 9th, 13th, 21st, 40th and 46th Infantry Regiments; 6th Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 11th, 25th, 27th, 29th and 37th Infantry Regiments; 7th Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 8th, 24th and 39th Infantry Regiments; and 8th Infantry Regiment: formed by consolidation of the 10th and 12th Infantry Regiments. The new 8th Infantry was abolished soon after its formation. The new regiments numbered 1 through 7 resulting from these consolidations still exist, and they perpetuate the lineages of thirty-three regiments that served during the War of 1812. These seven regiments are the only current infantry regiments with credit for participation in the War of 1812. It was not until 1838, in anticipation of the War with Mexico, that additional regiments were created. Note that the numbering of the seven new infantry regiments formed during this contraction of the