First Rhode Island Infantry, 3 month regiment

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Photo courtesy RI Secretary of State
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1st Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry (3 months, 1861)

Organized in Rhode Island, April, 1861. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 20 and 24, 1861. Duty at Camp Sprague, Defences of Washington, till July 16. Attached to Burnside's Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, June-July. Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16-21. Battle of Bull Run July 21. Left Washington for home July 25. Mustered out August 2, 1861.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 8 Enlisted men by disease. Total 25.

Article by Rhode Island Civil War Roundtable discussing this photo's history and the commonly published error about it (here).

Report on the units sole action at 1st Bull Run
Reports of Col. Ambrose E. Burnside,
First Rhode Island Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, Second Division.
JULY 16-22, 1861.--The Bull Run, or Manassas, Campaign, Virginia.
(posted here in its entirety)

Promised by wife I would post something about here native state.

 

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Company D 1st Rhode Island

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This unit was a militia unit, as its official name was the "First Rhode Island Detached Militia".