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1st RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT

"I Joined the Army to Obtain My Freedom"

1st RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT OF FOOT - THE BEST LIGHT INFANTRY IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE

Meet the Members
of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot

1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) members are re-enactors who are dedicated to portraying an accurate impression of a 18th Century Continental Soldier who might have served in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot during the American Revolutionary War.

Non-commissioned Officers

Sgt. Joseph Becton

Hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Senior Park Ranger, Independence Park Phila., PA.  Historian, impressionist, re-enactor and author.  Co-founder of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot re-enactors.  Co-founder, Recording Secretary and Member of the 3rd US Colored Infantry Regiment r-enactors.

Sgt. Fredrick L. Minus

Hometown, Trenton, NJ.  Historian, and Impressionist.  Curator of the US Colored Troops Department, Camp Olden, Civil War and Native American History Museum.  Re-enactor and co-founder of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot re-enactors.  1st/Sgt and co-founder of the 6th US Colored Infantry Regiment re-enactors.  Founder and President of the 6th U.S.C.T. Cadets, Trenton, NJ.  1st/Sgt 3rd US Colored Infantry Regiment Re-enactors.  Member and co-founder of the Webfoot Flotilla, Civil War Naval Re-enactors 

Drum Sgt/Maj. Gyasi Mann

Men at Arms

Angel Blackstone
Man at Arms
Hometown, Trenton, NJ. Impressionist.  Re-enactor member of 1st Rhode Island Regiment, member of the 6th US Colored Infantry Regiment re-enactors.

Leon Brooks
Man at Arms
Hometown, Trenton, NJ.  Impressionist, re-enactor, member of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment., member & Web Master of the 6th US Colored Infantry Regiment re-enactors.

Byron W. Childress
Man at Arms
Hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Impressionist, historian and author.  Re-enactor, member & Web Master of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot.  2nd/Sgt, Regimental Secretary and Web Master of the 3rd US Colored Infantry.  Member and co-founder 
of the Webfoot Flotilla, Civil War Naval Re-enactors.

Blake Daniels
Man at Arms
Home town, Manchester, New Jersey.  Re-enactor, member of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot Re-enactors.

Brian Daniels
Man At Arms
Home town, Manchester, New Jersey.  Actor, Re-enactor, Impressionist, member of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot,
6th US Colored Infantry Regiment, Civil War Re-enactors and the 22nd US Colored Infantry, Civil War Re-enactors

Jordan Lester
Man At Arms
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Actor, Re-enactor, member of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot and the
6th US Colored Infantry Regiment, Civil War Re-enactors.

1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot - Cadets & Musicians

Gyasi Mann
Drum Sgt/Major -Marching Instructor - Music Instructor
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Historian, Musician and Impressionist.  Drum Sergeant Major and Marching Instructor of the 1st Rhode Island Fife & Drum.  Marching Instructor of the 6th U.S.C.T. Cadets Fife & Drum.  Member of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment and the 6th US Colored Infantry Re-enactors.  Member of the Old Barracks Fife & Drum.

Kyle Allen
Musician/Drummer/Cadet
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Actor, Re-enactor, Musician, Member 1st Rhode Island of Foot Cadets and
member of the 6th US Colored Infantry Regiment Civil War Cadets.

Malcolm Jones
Cadet
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Member 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot Cadets and member of the 6th US Colored
Infantry Civil War Cadets.

Justin Wilson Kemp
Cadet
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Member 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot Cadets and member of the 6th US Colored
Infantry Regiment Civil War Cadets.

Thomas Paterson
Cadet
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Member 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot Cadets and a member of the 6th US Colored
Infantry Regiment Civil War Cadets.

Steven Thomas
Musician/Fifer/Cadet
Home town, Trenton, New Jersey.  Musician/Fifer 1st Rhode Island Regiment of Foot.  Musician/Fifer 6th US Colored
Infantry Regiment Civil War Re-enactor Cadets.

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