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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 ...
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 Rhode Island Regimental Flag. Another commonly flown flag is the flag of the Rhode Island Regiment. Many houses throughout the state display the flag alongside the current flag, or in lieu of the state flag. [citation needed] The flag can also be seen flying at home football games of the University of Rhode Island Rams.
The Rhode Island Line was assigned a quota of 2 infantry regiments for 1777 and 1778–1779, reduced to 1 infantry regiment for 1781, and to 1 battalion (of 6 companies) for 1783. 1st Rhode Island Regiment (1777) (Authorized September 16, 1776. Redesignated Rhode Island Regiment January 1, 1781. Redesignated Rhode Island Battalion March 1, 1783.
The 1st and 2nd Regiments were merged on 1 January 1781 and the new unit was named the Rhode Island Regiment. [3] Olney transferred to the new regiment in January and assumed command of the regiment on 14 May 1781 after Colonel Greene and Major Ebenezer Flagg were killed by Tories at the Battle of Pine's Bridge on the Croton River in ...
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
A 1781 illustration of Continental Army soldiers during the Yorktown campaign, including a black infantryman (on the far left) from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, one of the regiments in the Continental Army with the largest number of black patriot soldiers. An estimated four percent of the Continental Army were black.
The 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was organized between December 1861 and March 1862 at Pawtucket as the 1st New England Cavalry.Late in that month, the regiment was sent to Washington, D.C., and initially assigned to Hatch's cavalry brigade in Nathaniel Banks' V Corps in the Department of the Shenandoah.