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Virginia infantry. 1st Virginia Regiment (1776). Colonel James Read. (Assigned to the Main Army on July 20, 1776). 2nd Virginia Regiment (1776). Colonel William Woodford. (assigned to the Main Army on December 27, 1776). 3rd Virginia Regiment (1776). Colonel Hugh Mercer: February 13, 1776; Colonel George Weedon: August 13, 1776.
The Georgia Line was assigned a quota of 1 infantry regiment for 1777, 1778–1779, and 1781; and 1 infantry regiment (of 3 companies) for 1783. Three infantry regiments in excess of the quota were raised outside Georgia. 1st Georgia Regiment (Reauthorized September 16, 1776.
When the Continental Army was demobilized in 1783, a single regiment, the 1st American Regiment remained, under the command of Colonel Henry Jackson. In 1784 this regiment was disbanded. A single company of artillery was reassigned to a new regiment, the First American Regiment, the predecessor to the United States Army's 3rd US Infantry Regiment.
1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77; ... the 1st Delaware Volunteer Infantry was mustered into federal ... (also Continental Army, aka 3rd New Hampshire Regiment) [8]
The 1st Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army that draws its lineage from a line of post American Revolutionary War units and is credited with thirty-nine campaign streamers. The 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry is assigned as support to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and to furnish the enlisted ...
The 3rd Maryland Regiment was organized on 27 March 1776 of eight companies from Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Talbot, Harford and Somerset counties of the colony of Maryland. The regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 for service with the Continental Army and was assigned on 27 December 1776 to the main element.
In 1776, Patton had commanded a battalion of the Pennsylvania State Rifle Regiment. Half of Malcolm's Additional Continental Regiment was drawn from New York and half from Pennsylvania. Still other Continental infantry regiments and smaller units, also unrelated to a state quota, were raised as needed for special or temporary service.
32 units of the United States Army have lineages which date back to the colonial history of the United States.Of those, 31 are Army National Guard units, including regiments, battalions, companies, batteries and troops, while one is a battalion of the Regular Army's Field Artillery Branch. 29 of the 31 Army National Guard units trace their lineage back to units formed in British America, while ...