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1st RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT


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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

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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.

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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 

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Drum Sgt/Maj. Gyasi Mann

Men at Arms

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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