1st Rhode Island Regiment

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1st Rhode Island Regiment
Active 1775-1776
Allegiance Continental Congress of the United States
Type Infantry
Part of Rhode Island Line
Nickname Varnum's Continentals
Battles/wars Battle of Bunker Hill, Princeton, Monmouth, Yorktown
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Colonel James Mitchell Varnum
Boston campaign, 1775–1776
Boston siege – Bunker Hill – Dorchester Heights
New York and New Jersey Participation, 1777
Princeton – Forage War – Bound Brook
Philadelphia campaign, 1777–1778
Brandywine – Paoli – Germantown – White Marsh – Matson's Ford – Crooked Billet – Monmouth
Northern theater after Saratoga, 1778–1781
Rhode Island – Wyoming Valley – Carleton's Raid – Cherry Valley – Stony Point – Penobscot expedition – Sullivan expedition – Newtown – Springfield – Groton Heights
Southern theater Participation, 1780
Yorktown

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The 1st Rhode Island Regiment also known as Varnum's Regiment was authorized on 6 May 1775 in the Rhode Island Army of Observation and was organized on May 8, 1775 under Colonel James Mitchell Varnum consititing of eight companies of volunteers from the counties of Kent and King of the colony of Rhode Island. It was adopted into the Continental Army on 14 June 1775 and then on 28 June it was re-organized to ten companies. On 28 July 1775 it was assigned to Greene's Brigade of the main Continental Army. On 1 January 1776 it was re-organized to eight companies and re-designated as the 9th Continental Regiment. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

[edit] 1777-1781

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was re-formed on 1 January 1777 when the 9th Continental Regiment of Hitchcock's Brigade was redesignated. It was relieved from this brigade on 13 January 1777 and assigned to the Highland's Department on 12 March 1777. It was then assigned to the Rhode Island Brigade on 10 July 1777. This brigade was relieved on 14 September 1777 from the Highland's Department and re-assigned to the main Continental Army. On 2 January 1778 the regiment was relieved from this brigade and assigned to the Eastern Department. during the spring of 1778 the regiment was re-organized as an all African-American volunteer (enlisted) regiment. On 1 January 1781 the regiment was consolidated with the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment and redeisgnated as the Rhode Island Regiment in the New Hampshire Brigade of the main Continental Army.

  • It was the first all African-American regiment in the Revolutionary War.

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[edit] References

  • Death Seem'd to Stare": The New Hampshire And Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge by Joseph Lee Boyle, Clearfield Co, 1995 ISBN 0806352671

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