Rhode Island Civil War Union Units 1st through 20th

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Regiments

 * 1st Regiment, Rhode Island Light Artillery Organized at Providece in Batteries A-H between June 6, 1861 and October 14, 1862 Mustered out between June 11, 1865 and July 3, 1865.


 * 1st Regiment, Rhode Island Cavalry Organized at Pawtucket as 1st New England Cavalry, afterwards designated 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, December 14, 1861 to March 3, 1862 Mustered out at Baltimore, Maryland, August 3, 1865


 * 1st Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry (3 months, 1861) Organized in Rhode Island, April, 1861 Left Washington for home July 25, 1861. Mustered out August 2, 1861.


 * 2nd Regiment, Rhode Island Cavalry Organized at Providence November 21, 1862. Transferred to 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry January 14, 1864.


 * 2nd Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence June, 1861 Mustered out July 13, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Organized at Providence as 3rd Infantry August, 1861. Reorganized at Hilton Head, South Carolina, as Heavy Artillery December 19, 1861.


 * 3rd Regiment, Rhode Island Cavalry Organized at Providence September 12, 1863. Mustered out November 29, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 4th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence, 1861. Old members mustered out October 15, 1864. Veterans and Recruits consolidated with 7th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry.


 * 5th Regiment, Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Organized at New Berne, N. C., from 5th Rhode Island Infantry, May 27, 1863. Designation of Regiment changed to 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery July, 1863.


 * 7th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence May to September, 1862. Mustered out June 9, 1865.


 * 7th Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry (3 months, 1862) Organized at Providence and mustered in for three months June 24, 1862. Mustered out September 26, 1862, expiration of term.


 * 9th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence May 26, 1862. Mustered out September 2, 1862.


 * 10th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence May 26, 1862. Mustered out September 1, 1862


 * 10th Battery Light Artillery Organized at Providence for three months' service. May 27-29, 1862. Mustered out August 30, 1862.


 * 11th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence and mustered in October 1, 1862. Mustered out July 13, 1863.


 * 12th Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Providence and mustered in for nine months October 18, 1862. Last Place: Providence. Mustered out July 29, 1863.


 * 14th Regiment Heavy Artillery (African Descent) Organized at Providence August 28, 1863, to January 25 1864. Mustered out June 26, 1865.


 * Hospital Guards, Rhode Island Infantry Organized at Portsmouth Grove December 6, 1862. Mustered out August 26, 1865.


 * Tompkins' Battery, Rhode Island Light Artillery (3 months, 1861) Organized at Providence for three months' service April, 1861. Mustered out August 2, 1861.


 * Unassigned Rhode Island Volunteers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Rhode Island Infantry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.