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The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through ...
15th Regiment of Rhode Island Militia, 1775; Artillery Company of Westerly, Charleston and Hopkinton, 1755; Babcock's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77 [8] Bowen's Regiment of Militia, 1778 [8] Bristol Train of Artillery, February 12, 1776 to present; Cook's Regiment of Militia (Rhode Island), 1777 [8] Church's Regiment (Continental Army), 1775
The regiment was re-organized as the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment after the death of Colonel Hitchcock on 13 January 1777. Colonel Israel Angell was placed in command of the regiment. In late 1777 it fought at the Battle of Red Bank and Major Simeon Thayer of the 2nd led the defenders during the latter part of the Siege of Fort Mifflin .
Major General Ambrose Burnside of 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Company D at Camp Sprague, Washington, 1861 Pvt. Wheaton Theodore King, aged 19, before the First Bull Run, where he was wounded, taken to Richmond, then released to Philadelphia, where he died on January 28 ...
The regiment was authorized by the Rhode Island General Assembly on January 8, 1776, in the Rhode Island State Troops as Babcock's Regiment. It was organized on January 18, 1776, with 12 companies under the command of Colonel Henry Babcock (1736–1800).
Rhode Island responded, on June 28, 1775, by raising six new companies and assigning two companies to each Rhode Island regiment. In an effort to weld the separate New England armies into a single "Continental" Army, on August 5, 1775, General Washington ordered that a board be convened to determine the rank of the regiments at Boston.
Church's Regiment (a.k.a. 3rd Rhode Island Regiment) was a unit of the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island which served from May 3, 1775 to December 31, 1775 in the American Revolutionary War. [1]
The regiment was also located in the area around White Plains, New York. It was also engaged at the Battle of Staten Island on January 15, 1780. It was disbanded in January 1781 when it was consolidated with the 1st and 2nd Rhode Island regiments to form the Rhode Island Regiment. Colonel Sherburne served in command of the regiment until it was ...