Kentish Artillery

[1] At the start of the American Civil War, Charles P. Williams, who rose to the rank of captain in the company in his early adulthood.

[1] In 1886, the Rhode Island Supreme Court held that in a case in which the militia unit was suing a former member to recover the uniform that had been issued to him, the judge of the Justice Court of Warwick was ineligible to hear the case, because he too was a member of the unit.

[3] The original armory, built in the Greek revival style, was destroyed by fire in 1911.

[4][1] In 1926, the Kentish Artillery was among several Rhode Island military organizations authorized to attend the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

[6] As of 2022[update], the armory building constructed in 1912 is on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands and houses the Warwick Center for the Arts.