Heritage

A Field Artillery heritage

The colors went into a case in 2005 and came back out at the Virginia War Memorial in 2025. The traditions never stopped in between.

This association is new. The lineage it serves is not. Virginia National Guard Public Affairs puts the DIVARTY's World War II namesake on the line from the beaches of Normandy to Victory in Europe Day.

In 2005, force-structure changes caught up with the formation and the Army deactivated it. The last live-fire of that era was shot at Fort Barfoot — then Fort Pickett — and the colors were cased at 29th Infantry Division Headquarters, Fort Belvoir.

On 6 September 2025 those colors were uncased again at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond — DIVARTY and Headquarters and Headquarters Battery — with the Adjutant General of Virginia presiding. The headquarters is in Bowling Green. Line battalions train in Virginia, Florida, and Georgia.

Official unit copy and current DIVARTY news live on the Virginia National Guard DIVARTY page. The three stories below belong to every Redleg, and the association keeps them the way every artillery unit does — by telling them.

The Legend of St. BarbaraPatron saint of artillerymen, and protector against sudden death.View The Story of Molly PitcherThe woman who manned the gun at the Battle of Monmouth.View Fiddler's GreenWhere Redlegs muster after the last fire mission is complete.View

1-111th Field Artillery

The Norfolk-based battalion aligned under the DIVARTY, and the regiment behind it.