1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

The First Rhode Island Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 8 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
April	Organized in Rhode Island under Colonel Ambrose Burnside
April 20 and 24	Moved to Washington, D.C.
May	Duty at Camp Sprague, Defences of Washington
June	Attached to Burnside's Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia. Major J. P. Balch took command of the regiment when Colonel Burnside was given brigade command
July 16-21	Advance on Manassas, Va.
July 21	Battle of Bull Run
July 25	Left Washington for home
August 2	Mustered out