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The 1st Pennsylvania Regiment - originally mustered as the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles; also known as the 1st Continental Line and 1st Continental Regiment, was raised under the command of Colonel William Thompson for service in the Continental Army.
Pennsylvania Line: 1 regiment. The Continental Congress ordered that six companies of riflemen be raised in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania frontiersman were so eager to participate that on June 22 Pennsylvania's quota of companies was increased to eight, organized as a regiment known as the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. A ninth company was added to ...
5th South Carolina Regiment (1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment). Colonel Isaac Huger. 6th South Carolina Regiment (2d South Carolina Rifle Regiment). Colonel Thomas Sumter. [7] Georgia infantry. 1st Georgia Regiment. Colonel Lachlan McIntosh: January 7, 1776; Colonel Joseph Habersham: September 16, 1776. Cavalry units
12th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment (41st Penna. Volunteer Infantry) 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment (42nd Penna. Volunteer Infantry—1st Pennsylvania Rifles, the "Bucktails") 14th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment (43rd Penna. Volunteers—1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery) Battery A, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery
His unit was known as Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion, or the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. After Thompson's company of Pennsylvania sharpshooters drove back a British landing-party on November 9, 1775, he was made a brigadier-general, to the displeasure of George Washington, who had reservations about Thompson's abilities.
5th South Carolina Regiment (1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment) (Reauthorized September 16, 1776. Converted to ordinary infantry in 1777. [ 7 ] Consolidated with 1st South Carolina Regiment , February 11, 1780).
The Thirteenth Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 42nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, Kane's Rifles, or simply the "Bucktails," was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment: Maj. Ennion Williams 199 Col. Samuel Miles and Lt. Col. James Piper were captured in Battle of Long Island. According to Stryker, this unit included the remnants of Atlee's Pennsylvania State Musketry Battalion (decimated at Long Island), [35] while Fischer places those remnants with the 6th Virginia Regiment.