1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

Rhode Island was directed by Secretary of War Russell A. Alger to raise a regiment of infantry from existing militia units in lieu of conscripting 720 individuals to augment the Regular Army as U.S.

The unit was assigned to the 3rd Division, Second Army Corps and reported for duty at Camp Alger, Virginia, from late May.

However the regiment and the rest of Second Corps left Camp Alger in early August 1898, due to a typhoid fever epidemic.

However, conditions in Thoroughfare Gap resulted in dysentery and malaria, and the unit eventually relocated to Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, with the rest of Second Corps in August 1898.

The unit returned to Providence and handed over colors to Governor Elisha Dyer after a parade past city hall on April 1, 1899.

Major General Ambrose Burnside of 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Company D at Camp Sprague, Washington, 1861
Pvt. Wheaton Theodore King, aged 19, before the First Bull Run, where he was wounded, taken to Richmond, then released to Philadelphia, where he died on January 28, 1862.
Kady Brownell , vivandière associated with 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment and 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment with bayoneted rifle
1st Rhode Island Volunteers at Camp Alger